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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 

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UNITED STATES OF AMBRIOA. 



THE 



Beecher Book of Days 



SELECTIONS FOR EACH DAY IN THE YEAR AND 

FOR THE BIRTHDAYS OF DISTINGUISHED 

PERSONS COMPILED FROM THE 

WORKS OF THE 



REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER 



EDITED BY 

ELEANOR KIRK and CAROLINE B. LeROW 




NEW YORK : 

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited 
739 AND 741 Broadway. 






CorYRir.HT, 1886, 
Bv O. M. DUNHAM. 



PREFACE 



"Nature," says Emerson, "seems to exist for 
the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity 
of good men. They make the earth wholesome. 
Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in 
such society, and actually or ideally we manage to 
live with our superiors." In this little volume they 
become our companions through nearly every day 
in the year, while one of the grandest souls of the 
century speaks to us of them and their work. It 
is the hope of the compilers that every word may 
be found not only eloquent of past virtue and 
achievement, but a help to the weak, a comfort to 
the sorrowing, and an inspiration to all. 



Brooklyn, i; 



JANUARY. 



Darkness and light reign alike. Snow is on the 
ground. Cold is in the air. The winter is blossom- 
ing in frost-flowers. Why is the ground hidden ? 
So hath God wiped out the past ; so hath he spread 
the earth like an unwritten page for a new year ! 
Upon this lies, white and tranquil, the emblem of 
newness and purity, the virgin robes of the yet 
unstained year. 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac, 



January i. 

We are the children of the New and not of the 
Old. It is a beautiful thing for us to lay aside all 
animosities at the beginning of the year, and to 
reach forth an open palm to every one that we 
meet, as if we said, " Let the past bury the past. 
Let us begin anew." 

Sermon, The Old and the New. 



January 2. 

Gen. James Wolfe, 1727, 
Edmund Burke, 1730. 

Although we hate war, we admire the warrior. 
Sermon, ScoPE AND Function of a Christian Liff. 

The man who undertakes to rectify the times in 
which he lives, must make up his mind to do it not 
by sight but by faith. 

SerjHon, The True Heroism of Labor. 



A mother and a dog are the only two things in 
this world that seem to have absolutely disinter- 
ested love. 

Sermon, The Christian's God. 



January i. 



January 2. 



January 3. 

Lucretia Mott, 1793. 
Douglas Jerrold, 1803. 

There are some chords that only a mother's hand 
can touch. Lucretia Mott's audiences looked up 
to her reverentially. Would you have said to her, 
Keep silence ? 

Semwn, Women to Preach. 

God bless good-natured men and multiply the 
number of them. It is a great comfort just to look 
at a man who is good-natured. 

Sermon, Unconscious Influence. 



January 4. 

Henry Bohn, 1796. 
Isaac Pitman, 1813. 

A house without books is like a room without 
windows. 

Eyes and Ears. 

Discrimination, quick judgment, just judgment 
in minute things. 

Sermon, Conduct, the Index of Feeling. 



Lift your standard high and then try to reach it. 
Sermon, The Use of Ideals. 



January 3. 



January 4. 



January 5. 

Begin well at the very bottom. Carry up fidelity 
through every part of your life. 

Sermon, The Test of Love. 

Do you not know some round, healthy-blooded 
woman, who, while other people are crying and 
coming to grief, does not trouble herself, and comes 
out as well as they do and has comfort all the time, 
too? 

Sermon, Divine Providence. 

January 6. 

Joan of Arc, 1412. 
Benjamin Franklin, 1706. 
Charles Sumner, 1811. 

I do not care whether Joan of Arc saved France 
or lost France. She saved the world and lifted it 
up many degrees. 

Sermon, The Moral Teaching of Suffering. 

Do not be ashamed to carry your own bundle or 
trundle your own wheelbarrow. 

Sermon, PRACTICAL Ethics for the Young. 

The old State that gave Charles Sumner birth 
shall cut his name in letters so deep that time itself 
shall never rub them out. 

Sermon, Charles Sumner. 

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January 5. 



January 6. 



January 7. 

Millard Fillmore, 1800. 

No man prospers in this world by luck, unless it 
be the luck of getting up early, working hard, and 
maintaining honor and integrity. 

Sermon, PRACTICAL ETHICS for the Young. 



To those whom she loves, there can be no service 
too sacrificing, no deeds too onerous, no patience 
in their troubles too long continuing. 

Eyes and Ears. 



January 8. 

Alfred R. Wallace, 1822. 
Alma Tadema, 1836. 

Wallace, a Christian not only, but of the spirit- 
ualistic school. 

Sermon, The Two Revelations. 

An artist sees grace, beauty, and tenderness 
which common eyes fail to discern. 

Norwood. 

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January 7. 



January 8. 



January 9. 

Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 1841. 

The visible was leading her to the invisible, and 
she felt the power of the world to come. 

Norwood. 



You are not well bred, if your courtesy is a thing 
to be thought of, 

Sei'inon, Morality not Enough. 

iVIen go around looking for higher places ; but the 
way to get higher is to work so well, that it is bad 
economy to have you in a lower place. 

Sermon, Working with God. 



January 10. 

Paul Gustave Dore, 1S33. 
Adelina Patti, 1S43. 

Every man who works with his hand, should put 
brains in the palm of that hand. 

Sermon, Fragments of Instruction. 

If song is to rule, it must be the heart that sings, 
and not the voice alone. 

Sermon, The Social Principle in Religion. 

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January 9. 



January 10. 



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January ii. 

fjohn Winthrop, 1588. 
s Alexander Hamilton, 1757. 
I Bayard Taylor, 1825. 

You cannot rise to a high and honorable place in 
life, except by those stepping-stones which were 
squared and laid down by the industry of those 
who have preceded you. 

Sermon, Reason in Religion. 

Your destiny turns on character, and the upbuild- 
ing of that character should be your most glorious 
ambition. 

Sermon, Resolving and Doing. 



January 12. 

Are you on the right side of the conflict between 
good and evil ? 

Sermon, The Battle of Life. 

Inspired, heroic sympathy for men, the desire to 
live for one's kind, as God lives for mankind, must 
succeed. 

Sermon, Old Thoughts in New Forms. 

The scowling cloud that has overhung thee shall 
be struck through and through with light, bearing 
the colors of heaven. 

Sermon, The Primacy of Love. 



January ii. 



January 12. 



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January 13. 

Charles James Fox, 1748. 
Salmon P. Chase, 1808. 

No man has a right to let anybody be more 
nimble in plotting against the commonwealth, than 
he is in working for it. 

Sermon, Redemption of the Ballot. 

All honor to the men, who in legislation or in 
jurisprudence, are finding out the truths of God in 
associated humanity. 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



January 14. 

Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1806. 

There is some stormy sea or other, on which he 
who would venture may venture. 

Servian y Heroism. 



There is no spendthrift like the heart. It does 
not know economy, but gives all always. 

Sermon, Heart Fragrance. 

It takes a great while to answer some prayers. 
Sermon, Faith IN Prayeiu 

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January 13. 



January 14. 



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January 15. 

Dr. Samuel Parr, 1747. 

Capable of being a hero, and quite as capable of 

being a fanatic. 

Norwood. 



A mother's heart does more in the bringing up 
of children, a million times, than a mother's hand, 
though the hand is sometimes quite busy. 

Sermon, The Riches of God. 



January 16. 

Johann August Wilhelm Neander, 1789. 

It was given to this soul to pour light over things 
that are dark, and impart perfume to things that 
are odorless. 

Sermon, Religion in Daily Life. 



Are you a match-maker } Match-making is an 
art so fascinating, that it is no wonder people be- 
come addicted to it. 

Norwood. 

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January 15. 



January 16. 



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January 17. 

Johann Wolfgang jMozart, 1756. 
Caleb Gushing, 1800. 

What is there in ten thousand nightingales sing- 
ing through ten thousand moonlit nights that can 
compare for a single moment with a symphony of 
Mozart ? 

Sermon, Spiritual Fruit Culture. 

The heroes of the world have been made up of 
moral qualities. 

Sermon, Conduct, the Index of Feeling. 



January 18. 

Daniel Webster, 1782. 

Webster, if his secret heart were known, was more 
vain of his sheep and cattle than of his speeches. 

Pet Notions. 



For her friends she is a continuous garden ; for 
her not friends, a precipice. 

Eyes and P2ars, 

A man without ambition is like a man without a 
back-bone. 

Sermon, The Perfect Manhood. 

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January \y. 



January i8. 



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January 19. 

James Watt, 1736. 
Thomas Hood, 1835. 

Thought reveals and subdues the mighty forces 
of nature that at first terrified, crushed, and anni- 
hilated man. 
Evolution and Religion, The Conversion of Force. 

A man would be impoverished indeed if the trait 
of wit and humor were taken away from him. 

Sermon, The Unity of Man, 



January 20. 

Nathaniel P. Willis, 181 7. 

God has given us imagination not alone to make 
some men poets, but to enable all men to beautify 
homely things. 

Eyes and Ears. 



Do not use the best of your life spinning silken 
thread for the embroidery of that life, but please 
your neighbor and make him a better man. 

Sermon, Man-Building. 



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January 19. 



January 20. 



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January 21. 

She is buoyant, joyous, free-moving, and artless. 

Norwood. 

There has never been a time w^hen man was so 
potential as he is to-day. 

Sermon, How Goes the Battle ? 

If one would only keep a boo|^, he would find 
that nine-tenths of the things which trouble and 
vex him are unreal, or things which he ought not to 
have thought of anyway. 

Sermon, The God of Comfort. 



January 22. 

Francis Bacon, 1561. 

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729. 

The works of Bacon are not midsummer-night 
dreams, but, like coral islands, they have risen from 
the depths of truth, and formed their broad surfaces 
above the ocean by the minutest accretions of per- 
severing labor. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 

Great and distinguished by the wisdom of his 
writings. 

Sermon, Brain Ld'e in America. 

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January 21, 



January 22, 



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JANUARY 23. 
William Page, 1811. 

Man is forever a disciple, and not a master, 

before Nature. 

Eyes and Ears. 



Hope is a better engineer than doubt and fear. 
Remarks on a Thanksgiving Proclamation. 

If you take true aim, you must draw the fore- 
sight through the hind-sight. 

Serjjion, The Perfect Manhood. 



January 24. 

Henry J. Raymond, 1S20. 

The editor that is taking knowledge and giving 
to it multiform wings and setting it flying round 
and round the world, he is the patriot. 

Sermon, Moral Theory of Civil Liberty. 

She serves others for the reason that birds sing, 

because she loves to ; for the reason that dew falls 

upon flowers, because such is the nature that the 

heavens gave it. 

Norwood. 

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January 23. 



January 24. 



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January 25. 

Robert Burns, 1759. 

Robert Burns — a true poet, made not by the 
schools, brought up with no external culture or 
assistance. He came as a flower comes in spring. 
We say that he was a man of the people. No ; he 
was far above the people. He was ordained to be 
an interpreter of God to his kind then and forever- 
more. 

Anniversary, Burns' Birthday. 



January 26. 

Dr. Samuel G. Morton, 1799. 

The world owes him a great debt of gratitude. 
Sermon, Apostolic Christianity. 



The tendency of right doing is to raise the doer 

into a higher mood. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 

Many afflictions are like orange-trees that are full 
of thorns, but on which, here and there, is fruit 
filled with sweetness. 

Sermon, Motives ok Action. 

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January 25. 



January 26. 



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January 27. 

Richard Bentley, 1674. 
P'rederick von Schelling, 1775. 



The dead men are scattered and none shall find 
them. Behold, they do but sleep ! At your sum- 
mons every one shall speak and instruct you in the 
best experiences of his life. 

Norwood. 



Be cheerful yourself and good-natured, and re- 
spectful, and every man has a secret for you worth 
knowing. 

Star Papers y Unclaimed Happiness. 



January 28. 

Prof. Henry Norman Hudson, 18 14. 
"Chinese Gordon," 1833. 

No benefactor is like him who fills life with new 

and fruitful ideas. 

Life of Jesus, the Christ. 

Heroisms are wrought out in men. They never 
come extemporized for the occasion. 

Lectures to Young Men. 



If there's a woman in this town that hates dirt, 

she's that woman. 

Norwood. 

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January 27. 



January 28. 



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January 29. 

Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688. 

The spiritual man sees all that the natural man 
sees, and then sees much besides. 

Sermon, The Ages to Come. 



" Remember that much of knowledge is growth, 
not accumulation. The life that one is living in is 
the book that men more need to know than any- 
other." 

Norwood. 



January 30. 

Walter Savage Landor, 1775. 
Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, 1816. 

A full nature that could not be reduced to terms. 

Norwood. 

A true warrior without reproach, who would not 
do a mean thing in the struggle any more than out 
of it. 

Sermon, The Beauty of Moral Qualities. 



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January 29. 



January 30. 



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January 31. 

Ben Jonson, 1574. 

Rev. John Summerfield, 1798. 

Men of genius are not creatures of another 
nature. They are elder brethren of the race. 

Life of Jesus, the Christ. 

There is no such happiness as that which grows 
out of a pure heart. 

Sermon, Treasure that Cannot be Stolen. 



No one can be dull where she is. Her lightest 
words and merriest have depth in them. 

Norwood. 



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January 31. 



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FEBRUARY. 



The day gains upon the night. The strife of 
heat and cold is scarce begun. Yet, as the month 
wears on, the silent work begins, though storms 
rage. The sun is not heard in all the heavens. 
Yet he whispers words of deliverance into the ears 
of every sleeping seed and root that lies beneath 
the snow. 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



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February i. 

Richard Whately, 1787. 
Thomas Cole, 1847. 

Men of reason that make the truth clearer have 
a title that never can be invalidated. 

Sermon, Posthumous Influence of Good Men. 

There is more sympathy with God's creation in 
the school of landscape painting in America than in 
the whole mediaeval school of painting put to- 
gether. 

Sermon, The New Incarnation. 



February 2. 

Hannah Moore, 1745. 
William H. Burleigh, 1812. 

She held in her hand what she had in her heart. 
Sermon, The Debt of Strength. 

Emotive, poetical, full of imagination. 

Sermon, Man's Two Natures. 



No man will escape annoyance by changing his 

business. 

Eyes and Ears. 

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February i, 



February 2. 



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February 3. 

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1809. 
Horace Greeley, 1811, 
Elisha Kent Kane, 1S20. 

There is many a man who has come to himself 
under the sweet bewitchment of Mendelsshon's 
music. 

Sermon, Coming to One's Self. 

Horace Greeley, foremost among journalists. 

Sermon, Charles Sumner. 

A voyager along new seas and strange conti- 
nents. 

Norwood. 



February 4. 

Mark Hopkins, 1802. 
George H. Hepworth, 1833. 

" The College President ought to be a great man, 

a sort of specimen, something for the boys to 

remember as a pattern of a man." 

Norwood. 

As it is necessary that the mathematician should 
make application of his problem, so it is requisite 
that the theory of religion should be applied to life. 
Sermon, FACT AND FANCY. 



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February 3. 



February 4. 



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February 5. 

James Otis, 1725 

Ole Bornemann Bull, 18 10. 

How earnest, how direct, how successful ! 

Sermon, The Way of Coming to Christ. 

If I am a fiddler, I am ordained of God to make 
mankind lift up their heads ; and if I do that I 
must have something in me. 

Sermon, The Hidden Life. 



February 6. 

Madame Sevigne, 1626. 
Wm. M. Evarts, 1S18. 

It is a part of woman's rights to be intelligent. 

That which men ought to know women ought to 

know. 

Sermon, Fragments of Instruction. 

There is a higher realm than that in which the 
senses bear sway, and the lower court cannot con- 
trol the higher. 

Si-nnon, Reason in Religion. 

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February 5. 



February 6. 



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February 7. 

Charles Dickens, 1S12. 

Dickens was a child of good fortune. He has 
been cherished with an unabated admiration and 
much personal affection for a quarter of a century. 
Star Papers, Sudden Death. 



When God clothes a woman with beauty she is 
expected to deny it always. A pity that a thing 
which is itself so charming, should be so often 
veiled with falsehood ! 

Sermon, The Secret of Beauty. 



February 8. 

Gen. William T. Sherman, 1S20. 

When the united armies marched through Wash- 
ington, what a heaven-rending shout went up as 
Sherman's name was sounded in their ears ! 

Sermon, The Riches of God. 



If you want a definition of humility, remember 

your mother. 

Sermon, The Spirit of the Cradle. 

Anxiety is not a religious duty ; and do not so 
regard it. 

Norwood. 



February 7. 



February 8. 



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February 9. 

James Parton, 1822. 

Let your reading be so comprehensive that it will 
take in something of all that is going on upon the 
globe in the time in which you live. 

Sermon, Reading. 



The predominant impression she leaves upon you 
is of character and not of costume. 

Eyes and Ears. 



February 10. 

Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, 1824. 

A man whose heart is really radiant cannot help 
showing it everywhere. 

Sermon, Treasure that Cannot be Stolen. 



" I have seen folks have measles light and scarlet 
fever so easy they didn't hardly know it. But I 
shall never be made to believe that anybody took 
religion so easy that they didn't know they had it." 

Norwood. 

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February 9. 



February 10. 



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February ir. 

Lydia Maria Child, 1802. 
Thomas Alva Edison, 1847. 

Woman, by the natural unfolding of human 
affairs, is brought to be again a prophetess — that 
is, a teacher — and her career cannot be stopped. 
Sermon, Women to Preach. 
The time may come when it will be found that men 
can use natural laws in ways that we now call miracu- 
lous. 

Sermon, The Ideal of Christian Experience. 

I feel an involuntary disposition to take off my 
hat to an engine. Sermon, Reading. 

February 12. 

Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1746. 
Peter Cooper, 1791. 
Abraham Lincoln, 1809. 

Energetic power, invincible zeal, and a courage 
that did not fear disaster or death. 

Life of Jesus, the Christ. 

Peter Cooper — a manly man, who lived for his 
fellow-men. May God increase the procession of 
such men ! He will increase it. It is a tendency. 
Evolution and Religion, The Drift of the Ages. 

Though slow, Abraham Lincoln was sure. A 
thousand men could not make him plant his foot 
before he was ready ; ten thousand could not move it 
after he had set it down. Speech at Edinburgh. 

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February ii. 



February 12. 



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February 13. 

David Dudley Field, 1805. 

It is the living man that has power to dominate 
and electrify living men. 

Sermon, SouL-PowER. 



The cares that made you fret yesterday are 
already below the horizon. The troubles that make 
you anxious to-day will not be troubles when you 
meet them. 

Sermon, BORROWING Trouble. 



February 14. 

St. Valentine. 

Josiah Quincy, 1772. 
Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824. 

" Getting in love is like gathering flowers in the 

night ; you may get a violet or you may pick a 

thistle." 

Norwood. 

A man does not live by the length of his years, 
but by the activity of the nature that carries him 
through those years. 

Sermon, The Perfect Manhood. 

Warlike and heroic, always willing to put himself 

in peril. 

Sermon, Heroism. 



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February i 



February 14. 



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February 15. 

Galileo Galilei, 1564. 
Susan B. Anthony, 1820. 

It is safe for a man to be a scientific man to-day. 
There is no danger of Galileo's recanting now. 
Evolution and Religion y The Liberty of Christ. 

You that live long enough will see women vote, 
and when you see women voting you will see less 
lying, less brutality, and more public spirit, heroism, 
and romance in public affairs. 

Sermon, The Advance of a Century. 



February 16. 

Philip Melancthon, 1497. 
Henry Wilson, 1812. 

The sweetest life that a man can live is keyed to 
iove toward God and love toward man. 

Lectures to Young Men, Practical Hints. 

No state can live long in power and virtue except 
as the great body of its citizens feel an interest in 
the welfare of the commonwealth. 

Sermon, Crime and its Remedy. 

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February 15. 



February 16. 



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February 17. 

John Ruskin, 1819. 

Ruskin is like a forest. After studying him you 
will observe differently, reason differently, all the 
days of your life. 

Norwood. 



There are none that stand hardship so well as 
those who are cultivated. 

Lectures to Young Men, Practical Hints. 

God is serious. He has business. You are his 
child and he loves you. 

Sermon, Foretokens of Resurrection. 



February 18. 

Charles Lamb, 1775. 
George Peabody, 1795. 

Wit and humor is a bounty and benefaction from 
God to man. 

Sermon, The Unity of Man. 

If the top of society bends perpetually over the 
bottom with tenderness, if the rich and strong are 
the best friends of the poor and needy, that is a 
civilized and Christian community. 

Evolution and Religion, Poverty and the Gospel. 

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February 17. 



February li 



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February 19. 

William W. Story, 1819. 

Art dignifies when it embodies the loves, hopes, 
joys, aspirations, and sorrows of the common people. 

Eyes and Ears. 



It is not enough to throw an inkstand at the 
devil, as Luther did. It must be constant resist- 
ance, and then he will flee from you. 

Sermon, The Nature of Conscience. 



February 20. 

Francois Marie Voltaire, 1694. 
William Rimmer, 1S21. 

The hand of Voltaire was not turned against the 
spirit of the Lord. He was removing the obstruc- 
tions that overlaid the soil. 

Evohition and Religiony The Vitality of God's 
Truth. 

I do not say that Nature does not express all and 
more than Art will ever represent. 

Norwood. 

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February 19. 



February 20. 



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February 21. 

John Plenry Newman, 1801. 
Jean Louis Meissonier, 1815. 

And so his name stands on the roll of honor. 

Sermon, Heroism. 

Being an artist gives a right to the name. 

Norwood. 



Saying disagreeable things in a calm and ironical 
way is inexcusable. 

Sermon, The Duty of Living Peaceably. 



February 22. 

George Washington, 1731. 
James Russell Lowell, iSig. 

What did Washington do at Valley Forge? 
With bloody-footed soldiers he waited. The 
patience, the indomitable purpose that could stand 
still and wait, is among the illustrious results of 
that man's life. 

Sermon, Patience,, 

That which ranks men is the brain that they 
have, the kind of brain, and the power which they 
have in that brain. 

Sermon, Fragments of InstructioNo 



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February 21. 



February 22o 



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February 23. 

Samuel Pepys, 1632. 

Every intelligent man and woman should know 
something about his own time. 

Sermon, Reading. 



We must keep on our work-clothes for our life 
Ls not done. 

NORWOODo 

Learn the love of praise and thanksgiving. 
Abhor grumbling. Abhor all dismal-minded ex- 
periences. Be a child of light. 

Sermon, The Happiness of Life. 



February 24. 

George Frederick Handel, 1684. 
George William Curtis, 1824. 

In Handel we have the supremest development 
of music. 

Sermon, The Secret of Beauty. 

These are the ones who stand to give our ideals 
something more definite. 

Sermon, Perfect Peace. 



Those who find their way to her heart are like a 
queen's guests and are entertained with a very 
sovereignty of kindness. 

Eyes and Ears. 

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February 23. 



February 24. 



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February 25. 

Francis Dominic Arago, 17860 

Whatever there may be in the laboratory or the 
observatory, a man has a right to proclaim it. 

Sermon, The Ijberty of Christ, 



One is divinely favored who may trace a silver 
vein in all the affairs of life, see sparkles of light in 
the gloomiest scenes, and absolute radiance in those 
which are bright. 

Lectures to Vounp- Men, Portrait Gallery. 



February 26. 

Victor Hugo, 1802. 

Great souls unconsciously attract to themselves 
the noblest ideas of the age, and by dramatic imag- 
ination give to them enlargement and a body of 
words. 

Evolution and Religion, The Idea of God. 



One who is naturally dry is immensely shocked 
at folks who are naturally juicy. 

Sermon, Other Men's Failings. 

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February 26. 



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February 27. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807, 

Longfellow, tender and refined, did not disdain 
to set his harp and sing of liberty when it was to 
bring upon him discords and howlings, and not the 
music of praise. 

Sermon, Charles Sumner. 



" But a man cannot see what's not to be seen." 

" That's a blind man's reason for not being a 

guide to others." 

Norwood. 



February 28. 

Berthold Auerbach, 1S12. 

We are borne as on angels' wings beyond the 
storm to those heights where we shall hear the 
sweet melodies of the heavenly life. 

Sermon, The Naturalness of Faith. 



Have you a right to ride in the State as a trav- 
eler rides in a car, never saying " Good-bye " when 
he goes out of it ? Do you think that when you 
have paid your taxes grudgingly you have paid your 

whole debt.^ 

Sermon, Crime and its Remedy. 

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February 28. 



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February 29. 

Gioacchino Rossini, 1792. 

I marvel that there are not more songs of victory 
sung. 

Sermon, Bearing but not Overborne. 



If you have only two or three things that you can 
enjoy, and they are things which time and decay 
may remove from you, what are you going to do in 
old age ? 

Lectures to Young Men, HappinesSo 



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MARCH 



The conflict is mors turbulent, but the victory is 
gained. The knolls and banks that face the east 
or south, sigh for release and begin to lift up a 
thousand tiny palms. 

Star Papers, The Death of Our AlmanaCo 



67 



March i. 

William Dean Howells, 1837. 

The blessedness of the imagination is far beyond 
he blessedness of the ordinary use of reason. 

Sermofi, The Realm of Restfulness, 



There is no ideal like that of a reliable character. 
Sermon, TRUTH Speaking. 

Sleep, food, and exercise are your best friends. 
Don't cheat them or cut their company. 

Norwood. 



March 2. 

De Witt Clinton, 1769, 

Conscientious in purpose, earnest in spirit, studi- 
ous of right ways. 

Sermon, Conduct, an Index of Feeling. 



There is nothing in the world more sincere than 
mirth. 

Sermon, The Happiness of Life. 

She is always dignified, yet leaves you with the 
sense of having been graciously smiled upon. 

Eyes and Ears. 

68 



March i. 



March 2. 



69 



March 3. 

Alexander Graham Bell, 1847. 

It is by the medicine of a living soul that dead 
souls are brought to life. 

Sermon., The Debt of Strength. 



Come out of your winter into the spring ! 

Sermon, Outward and Inward Life, 

A monkey is nearer a man than you were when 
you started to be a man. 

Sermon, The Naturalness of Faith. 



March 4. 

Count Casimir Pulaski, 1748. 

Occasions do not make heroes i they develop 
them. 

Sermon, Heroism. 



If you have the gift of art, of eloquence, of poetry, 
of emotion — if you have any gift, consecrate it. It 
has a meaning that will annihilate the distance 
between your heart and the hearts of other people. 
Sermon, The Law of Benevolence. 

70 



March 3. 



March 4. 



71 



M\RCH 5. 

Frederick S. Cozzens, 181S. 
Isaac J. Hayes, 1832. 

He always seemed afflicted when obliged to be 
sobe., 

Norwood. 

Those who enlarge the bounds of knowledge 
must push out witli bold endeavor beyond the com- 
mon walks of men. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness, 



March 6. 

Michael Angelo Buonaratti, 1474. 
Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan, 1831. 

The conceptions of Michael Angelo would have 
perished like a night's fantasy, had not his industry 
given them permanence. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 

No one but a soldier can know a soldier's feeling 
for a faithful horse. 

Norwood. 

72 



March 5. 



March 6. 



73 



March 70 

Ebenezer Elliot, 178I0 

Edwin Landseer, i8o2. 

Jolin Howard Raymond, 1S14. 

Poets, nearest of all, are in sympathy with the 
prophets. Life of Jesus, the Christ, 

Nothing can exceed the minute accuracy of the 
painting, or the very life and spirit of animals, to be 
found in Landseer's pictures. 

Star Papers, NATIONAL GALLERY. 

His work as an educator will constitute a part of 
the life of four great institutions, two of which were 
born of him, the incarnation of his spirit and wisdom. 
Few lives yield so much wheat and so little straw 
or chaff. Published Letter. 

March 8. 

Simon Cameron, 1799. 
Edwin Po Whipple, i8ig. 

A good life writes its own memorial and tablet 
day by day. 

Sermon, POSTHUMOUS Influence of Good Men. 

A thought is as real as the thing that makes the 
thought. Sermon, P'act and Fancy. 

A man should be ashamed to ask questions of 
others that he can answer himself. NorwooDo 

74 



March 7. 



March 8. 



75 



March 9. 

JHonore G. R. Mirabeau, 1749. 

-| William Cobbet, 1762. 
[^ William D. Whitney, 1827. 

The true workman in any sphere must work by 
a stimulation which comes from the actual enthusi- 
asm of loving the thing done. 

Sermon, Morality not Enough. 



Get and keep a healthy brain. Keep it fine. 
Train it to sharp and accurate impressions. 

Norwood. 



March 10. 

Karl Wilhelm Fred, von Schlegel, 1712. 

■Reason, inspired by the imagination. 

Life of Jesus, the Christ. 



One who knows how to serve gloriously is always 
served gloriously. 

Sermon, The Delight of Self-Sacrifice. 

True nobility should never be satisfied with any- 
thing in any direction so long as there is anything 

better. 

Sermon, The Use of Ideals. 

76 



March 9. 



March 10. 



n 



March ii. 

Torquato Tasso, 1544. 

Rev. Francis Wayland, 1796. 

Writers of great poems have given to the M^orld 
creatures strong-winged as the cherubim, who lift 
themselves above the commotion of centuries. 

Evohttion and Religion, The Hidden Man. 

His profound inquiries into cause and efifect and 
the nature of moral government, have led tn 
immense fertility and practical wisdom. 

Norwood. 



March 12, 

George Berkeley, 16840 
Robert C. Winthrop, iSog. 

That is a noble hero who develops a vast philos- 
ophy so that out of it shines more truth upon the 

souls of men. 

Sermon, Wealth Toward God. 

Deep and rich in moral feeling, strong and fine 
in affection, quick and fruitful in intellect. 

Norwood, 

78 



March ii. 



March 12. 



79 



March 13. 

Joseph Priestly, 1733. 

The science of real knowledge in the hands of 
an honest man, corroborates the word of God. 

Serfuon, The Inspiration of the Bible. 



Blessed are those whose thoughts are chastened, 
whose imagination will not breathe or fly in tainted 
air, and whose path has been measured by the 
golden reed of Purity. 

Lectures to Young Men. 



March 14. 

Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552. * 
Victor Emmanuel, 1820. 

There is nothing that touches moral sensibility 
like greatness of moral nature in a living form. 

Sermon, SouL- Power. 

He is the prince not who wears the crown out- 
side, but who wears the crown inside. 

Sermon, The True Economy of Living. 



March 13. 



March 14. 



Si 



March 15. 

Andrew Jackson, 1767. 

It is the salvation of the world to have a man 

profoundly believe and bring a great nature to his 

belief. 

Sermon, Self-Control Possible to All. 

We are obliged to begin where people are before 
we can lift them. 

Sermon, CONCEPTIONS OF GOD. 

All her ambitions assumed the form of kindnesses. 

Norwood. 



March 16. 

Gen. John Pope, 1823. 

Every man must fight the battles of life, whatever 
they are. 

Sermon, The Conflicts of Life. 



A man's happiness depends primarily upon his 
disposition. If that be good, riches will bring pleas- 
ure; but only vexation if that be evil. 

Lectures to Young Men, Six WARNINGS. 

82 



March 15. 



March 16. 



83 



March 17. 

Madame Roland, 1754. 
Thomas Chalmers, 1780. 
Moncure D. Conway, 1832. 

Whoever knew thee fail in the day of trial ? 

Norwood. 

Who is the best minister ? If with Chalmers he 
can bring to bear the truth from astronomical rela- 
tions, he has a right to be an astronomer. 

Sermon, The Golden Net. 

If the world were filled with such men it would 
be a much better world. 

Sermon, The Way of Coming to Christ. 



March 18. 

Rev. George W. Bethune, 1805. 
Grover Cleveland, 1837. 

A man standing apart and above, informed with 
the divine presence. 

Sermon, The Love of Christianity. 

Grover Cleveland, like Washington, has the great 
faculty of maintaining his own personality and en- 
larging his knowledge. 

Interview. 

84 



March 17. 



March 18. 



85 



March 19. 

Andrew P. Peabody, 1811. 

High philosophic thought, led to broad practical 
applications. 

Norwood. 



It is never too late to begin again. 

Sermon, Past and Future, 

I say that you are bound to live so as to be 
happy, and the divine underlying law is happiness. 
Lecture, Innocent Amusements. 



March 20. 

David Livingstone, 18 13. 

Any man is a hero who can do, and does do, 
what the million cannot do. 

Sermon, Heroism. 



The poorest man in the world is the one who 
touches his fellow-men in the fewest points. The 
richest man is he who has the most warm and 
glowing sympathies with all classes and conditions 
of human life. 

Sermon, The Deceitfulness of Riches. 

86 



March 19. 



March 20. 



87 



March 21. 

John Sebastian Bach, 1685. 

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763. 

Henry Kirke White, 1785. 

What organ did the hand of man ever build with 
such diapason as God put into the human soul ? 
And what do men bring out of the grand instru- 
ment which is in them ? 

Lectures to Young Men, HAPPINESS. 

It is a mysterious influence which emanates from 

him. 

Sermon, The Fruit of the Spirit. 

It is a blessed thing to have wings ! 

Sermon, The Realm of Restfulness. 



March 22. 

Antony Van Dyck, 1599. 

The portraits from the hand of Van Dyck are 
almost as interesting to look at as a group of figures 

or a landscape. 

Star Papers, National Gallery, 



When God stirs in us deep thoughts for things 

that are right, they are prophecies, and we must 

heed them. 

Norwood. 

88 



March 21. 



March 22. 



89 



March 23. 

j Pierre Simon La Place, 1749. 
( Richard A. Proctor, 1837. 
Rosa Bonheur, 1822. 

I need not thinic out the great system of astron- 
omy in order to believ^e the astronomical truths of 
my time, I accept them at the hands of the Church 
of Astronomers. 

Sermon, Reason in Religion. 

A conscientious artist will not select only the 
garish things of nature, but will stoop to her low- 
liest creatures. 

Norwood. 



March 24. 

The doors of her heart are quite royal. 

Eyes and Ears. 

Do you live by the bright picture of something 
better than that which you have attained ? 

Sermon, The Use of Ideals. 

The necessity of a man's earning his own liveli- 
hood is one of those great natural moral educations 
which is established in nature. 

Sermon^ Earning a Livelihood. 

90 



March 23, 



March 24. 



91 



March 25. 

A man that can bear cheerfully his fellow-men 
has little to learn. 

Sermon, Self-Control Possible to All. 

When God puts on the robe, the threads of which 
you have worked out in this life, you will be glad of 
everything you have done if you have done it faith- 
fully. 

Sertnon, Working with God. 



March 26. 

Nathaniel Bowditch, 1773. 
Sir John W. Lubbock, 1S03. 

He that reads Nature reads God's language. 

Eyes and Ears. 

Some of the greatest men in science, such as 
Darwin, Lubbock, and Huxley, have earned their 
fame by the study of the lower animals. 

Lecture, Humanity. 

92 



March 25. 



March 26. 



93 



March 27. 

She is pure as water, as bright as a pearl, as 
witching as an opal. 

Eyes and EarSo 

Remember, if you are supine, nature is not and 
time is not. 

Sermon, Do with Thy Might. 

A gentleman must see everybody without looking, 
know everybody withot inquiry, and say just the 
right thing to everybody without trying to. 

Norwood- 



March 28. 

Raphael, 1483. 

Rev. Orville Dewey, 1794. 

Raphael made art an instrument of human pleas- 
ure. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 

Dr. Dewey — one of the ablest Unitarian clergy- 
men of this generation. 

Memories. 



Never outrun health, A broken-down scholar is 

like a razor without a handle. 

Norwood. 

94 



March 27. 



March 28. 



95 



March 29. 

A man should count his mercies from the lowest 
to the highest, and the more he does this the more 
abundantly will he be blessed. 

Sermon, The Happiness of Life. 

The same thing means to-day an ounce and 
to-morrow a ton, according to the mood which one 
is in. 

Sermon, Christian Joyfulness. 



March 30. 

John Fiske, 1842. 

Nothing on earth is like God in a man. 

Sermon, The Core of Christianity. 



Reach after new thoughts and new aspirations. 
Sermon, Past and Future. 

Don't knuckle down to things that worry you, 
and talk about your burdens and responsibilities. 
Sermon, A Completed Year. 
96 



March 29. 



March 30, 



97 



March 31. 

Rene Descartes, 1596. 
Francis John Haydn, 1732. 

Reason is a window through which light comes 

into the soul. 

Sermon, Religious Constancy. 

Music lifts the understanding into a realm which 
it would not reach if left to itself. 

Sermon, Right and Wrong Way of Giving 
Pleasure. 



A bird singing in the face of winter is a voice of 
God-inspiring hope. 

Star Papers, Spring is Coming. 



98 



March 31. 



99 



APRIL. 



In its wild career, shaking and scourged of 
storms through its orbit, the earth has scattered 
away no treasures. The Hand that governs in 
April governed in January. You have not lost 
what God has only hidden. You lose nothing in 
struggle, in trial, in bitter distress. If called to shed 
thy joys as trees their leaves ; if the affections be 
driven back into the heart, as the life of flowers to 
their roots, yet be patient. Thou shalt lift up thy 
leaf-covered boughs again. Be patient. Wait. 
When it is February April is not far off. 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



lOI 



April i. 

Henry "Ware, 1764. 

Carl Otto Bismarck, 18 13. 

There is something in goodness that appeals to 
the gratitude of mankind. 

Sermon, Posthumous Influence of Good Men. 

I would not weaken one single sinew in the 
Eturdy arm of Bismarck. 

Sermon, War and Peace. 



If she meets you at church, in the street, at a 
oarty or concert, or in her own house, you feel that 
you have been shone upon. 

Eyes and Ears. 



April 2. 

Thomas Jefferson, 1743. 

Hans Christian Andersen, 1805. 

Men who have made their mark in this world 
have been men who had fire in their souls. 

Sermon, Religious Fervor. 

I think nothing translates a man out of the 
physical and material so much as to read fairy 
S,tories. Sermon, READING. 



Shall the struggles of men go on and I have no 
part in them ? Norwood, 



102 



April i< 



April 2. 



103 



April 3. 

George Herbert, 1593. 

Washington Irving, 1783. 

Rev. Edward Everett Hale, 1822. 

Like the perfume of flowers in a garden. 

Sermon, The Fruit of the Spirit. 

Those who give to the world thoughts which 
enrich and cheer and comfort men, never cease to 
work. 

Sermon, The Immortality of Good Works. 

Truth is spiritualized imagination. 

Sermon, The Realm of Restfulness. 



April 4. 

Thaddeus Stevens, 1793. 

Rev. James Freeman Clarke, 18 10, 

A giant, — despotic, patriotic. 

Sermon, Heroism. 

One of those deep natures that it is worth while 
to have for your friend, — a deep well that never dries. 

Norwood. 



Make men so much happier that they will long 
to be better, and long to be able to make others 
happier. 

Sermon, The Law of Benevolence. 

104 



April 3. 



April 4. 



105 



April 5. 

Elihu Yale, 1648. 
Robert Raikes, 1811. 
Frank R. Stockton, 1834. 

Riches bless that heart whose almoner is Benevo- 
lence. 

Lectures to Young Men, Six Warnings. 

Every great-hearted teacher takes in the bottom 
of the class as really as the top. 

Serrnon, The Graciousness of Christ. 

Those who give to the world a joyous literature — 
their names shall not perish. 

Sermon, Posthumous Influence of Good Men, 



April 6. 

Rev. John Pierpont, 1785. 

His life was a test of truth. 

Sermon, FACT AND Fancy. 



It is not enough for you to be as good as men 
who lived five hundred years ago. 

Sermon, The Primacy of Love. 

" May not I cry then T' Yes, just as the night 
does, and in the morning it is dew. There is not a 
flower that does not look sweeter for it. 

Sermon, The Privileges of the Christian. 

106 



April 5. 



April 6. 



107 



April 7. 

William Wordsworth, 1770. 

Rev. William Ellery Channing, 1780. 

To the poet is given to understand the innermost 
meaning of God in all nature. 

Sermon, The Realm of Restfulness. 

They that have soul-treasure — O, how much they 
are to be envied ! 

Sermon, Treasure that Cannot be Stolen. 

" That woman does love that man, what there is 
of him, and it's the Lord's wonder ! " 

Norwood. 



April 8. 
George Washburn Greene, 181 1. 

History, the one golden thread on which all 

events are strung. 

Sermon, God's Love. 



Do fretting and anxiety do you any good ? 

Sermon, Divine Providence. 

Honor the child-like heart, the heart that gives 
up, the heart that sacrifices its pride and interest 
for the sake of another's welfare. 

Sermon, The Primacy of Love. 

108 



April 7. 



April 8. 



109 



April 9. 

Fisher Ames, 1758. 

Under the banners of that army that means the 
re-creation of business, industry, commerce, and 
pohtics. 
Sermon, Scope and Function of a Christian Life. 



How grateful ought we to be to that distributive 
Providence which draws men and women to each 
other, not by agreements and Hkenesses, but also 
by differences ! 

Norwood. 



April 10. 

William Hazlitt, 1778. 

Not a scrap in literature from which its author 
has derived a permanent renown, that was not 
patiently elaborated. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 



He that would go up must do it by the elevation 
of his being. 
Sermon, Cuba, and the Brotherhood of Nations. 

Be not desolate or cast down. There is joy 

waiting for thee. 

Sermon, God's Grace, 

no 



April 9. 



April 10. 



TIT 



April ii. 

j George Canning, 1770. 
( Edward Everett, 1794. 

The tongue has national and political bearings. 
It is the silver bell of the soul or the crashing ham- 
mer of the anvil. It is a sceptre in a king's hand 
and sways men with imperial authority. 

Eyes and Ears. 



Be good as the world demands that you should 
be, but add to your virtue spirituality. 

Sermon, MORALITY NOT ENOUGH. 



April i2o 

Henry Clay, 1777. 

You might search all the Old Dominion for such 
another specimen and not find it. 

Norwood. 



There is a schoolmaster waiting for you behind 
every door. 

Star Papers, Unclaimed Happiness. 

Are you gathering into the house of the soul 

those companions that befit it ? Are its guests 

noble and royal } 

Sermon, SoUL-BuiLDlNG. 

112 



April ii. 



April 12. 



113 



April 13. 

Henry T. Tuckerman, 1813. 
William Sterndale Bennett, 1816. 

Literature has learned to express the spirit of love 
to God and love to man, which is the essential 
nature of true religion. 

Sermon, The New Incarnation. 

■ Let us pray, then, for the days of song ! 

Sermon, The Religious Uses of Music. 



Doing has both hands and feet, and uses them. 
Sermon, Well Wishing not Well Doing. 



April 14. 

Rev. Horace Bushnell, 1S02. 

Spirituality is never derived from vision. 

Sermon, The Departed Christ. 



I wish that men would love the Pope more than 
they do. Who is the Pope ? You, yourself. 

Sermon, CONSCIENCE AND ITS Auxiliaries. 

No man ever went through where there were 
tremendous odds against him and gained a victory 
for himself, that he did not gain a victory for multi- 
tudes besides. 

Sennon, The Comforting God. 

114 



April 13. 



April 14. 



115 



April 15. 

John Lathrop Motley, 18 14. 
Henry James, 1843. 

The history of two thousand years is the history 
of growing kindness to the weak and ignorant on 
the part of the strong and wise. 

SertnoHy Poverty and the Gospel. 

A sharp analyst, a man that looks up and around 
and perceives the minutest objects. 

Sermon, The Apostolic Theory of Preaching. 

April 16. 

Sir John Franklin, 1786. 
Louis Adolph Thiers, 1797. 

That only is a good voyage which brings the 
vessel home. 

Lectures to Young Men, Six Warnings. 

If there is a man on earth whose character should 
be framed of the most sterling honesty and most 
scrupulous morality, it is the man who administers 
public affairs. 

Lectures to Young Men, Portrait Gallery. 

A man who has no conscience is like a man with- 
out a dog ; the door is open to every prowler by 
day and by night. 

Sermon, Many Members, One Body. 

116 



April 15. 



April 16. 



117 



April 17. 

Rev. George B. Cheever, 1807. 

God speaks through every man that tells the 
truth and speaks in love. 
Evolution and Religion, The Signs of the Times. 



In things of the heart our knowledge is as a little 

child lying in a skiff upon the ocean, seeing only 

the sides of the pretty boat, but nothing of the great 

underlying sea that heaves it. 

Norwood. 



April 18. 

David Rittenhouse, 1732. 
George Henry Lewes, 181 7. 

He took his philosophical principles into outward 
life and found them in harmony with it. 

Sermon, Soul-Power. 

First an observer, then a philosopher. 

Sermon, Working and Waiting. 



You have a right to all that you have in you. 

Sermon, The Nature of Liberty. 



April 17. 



April 18. 



119 



April 19. 

Roger Sherman, 1721, 
Anna Jameson, 1797. 

Roger Sherman came up from a shoemaker's 

bench. 

Lectures to Young Men, Practical Hints. 

She sharpens our wits. She suggests new ideas. 

Norwood. 



Never give up a man. As long as there is Hfe in 
him help him. Even if your helping does not do 
him any good it will do you good. 

Sermon, The Temperance Question. 



April 20. 

Alice Gary, 1820. 

Better than all, she knew the art of bringing con- 
solation to those who were in sadness. 

Norwood. 



No man need hunt for hair shirts. No man need 
seek for blankets too short at the bottom and too 
short at the top. There are abundant opportunities 
for self-denial. 

Sermon, Problem of Joy and Suffering. 



April 19. 



April 20. 



21 



April 21 » 

Bishop Reginald Ileber, 1783, 
Charlotte Bronte, 18 16. 

His glorious manhood puts all littleness to shame. 
Sermon, The Sympathy of Christ. 

Whatever the history of her own life, her victory 
made her a leader for others in the dark land. 

Norwood. 



The power of love is shown by what a service 

love will do. 

Sermon, Christ's Mission on Earth. 



April 22. 

Emmanuel Kant, 1707. 
Madame de StaSl, 1766. 

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the 

soul. 
So-mon, The Temporal Advantages of Religion. 

The natural world stole in upon her with mute 

messages, and the thoughts which they started she 

deemed a revelation of truths that lay hidden in 

creation waiting for her. 

Norwood. 

122 



April 21. 



April 22. 



123 



William Shakespeare, 1564. 
James Anthony Froude, 1818. 

Strange gift of genius that now after three 
hundred years makes one proud to contribute a 
mite to perpetuate in its integrity the very room 
where the noble babe was born ! 

Star Facers, Stratford-ON-Avon. 

History was but clustering fables until the philo- 
sophic methods of history were developed. 

Sermon, What is Christ to Me ? 



April 24. 

Edmund Cartwright, 1743. 

Shall not the vast machineries of the world be 
inspired and controlled by men's higher reason ? 
Sermon, Scope and Function of a Christian Life. 



No one can be dull where she is. 

Norwood. 

Put the saddle of patience on your back and say 
to suffering, " Mount and ride me," and take the 
bit in your mouth and be exercised. 

Problem of Joy and Suffering in Life. 

124 



April 23. 



April 24. 



125 



April 25. 

Oliver Cromwell, 1599. 
John Keble, 1792. 

God raised up a Cromwell to wrest liberty from 
the king's hands and set it firmly upon its feet before 
the nations of the earth. 

Sermon, Privileges of the Christian. 

For every individual there is a vision of Christ 
that comes to his necessities, but it comes to each 
according to his own nature. 

Evolution and Religion, The Manifold Christ. 



April 26. 

" Artemus Ward," 1834. 

Men of wit and humor are God's torch-bearers, 
sent to tnose who sit in darkness and despondency. 
Sermon, Making Others Happy. 



You can take your choice as to whether you will 
work downwards or upwards, but that is the only 
choice you can have. 

Evolution and Religion, The Battle of Life. 

126 



April 25. 



April 26. 



127 



April 27, 

Louis Kossuth, 1802. 
Herbert Spencer, 1820. 
Ulysses S. Grant, 1822. 

Human nature is larger for the life of Louis 
Kossuth. 

Sermon, The Moral Training of Suffering. 

Spencer will be found to have given to the world 
more truth in one lifetime than any other man that 
has lived in the schools of philosophy. 
Evolution and Religion, Evolution and the Church. 

Grant had the patience of Fate and the force of 
Thor. He has left to memory only such weak- 
nesses as connect him with humanity, and such 
virtues as will rank him among heroes. 

EuLOG Y ON Grant. 



April 28. 

Anthony Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, 1801. 

When I see a true English lord — a man thafKy a 
man — there is nobility ! 

Sermon, SPIRITUAL Manhood. 



You belong to the commonwealth of the uni- 
verse ; you are allied to princes, thrones and domin- 
ions, to powers infinite and innumerable. 

Sermon, Summer in the Soul. 

128 



April 27. 



April 28. 



129 



April 29. 

Matthew Vassar, 1792. 

Wealth is the scholar's patron, sustains his leisure, 
rewards his labor, builds the college and gathers 
the library. 

Lectures to Young Men, Six WARNINGS. 

Do not be afraid of enjoyine yourself. Mean the 
best things, aim at them, do as well as you can, and 
then take some comfort ! 

Sermon, Motives of Action. 



April 30. 

Recall the wandering. Be patient with those 
who are out of the way. 

Sermon, Sovereignty of Love. 

That which a man sees in this world is not to be 
compared for beauty nor for comfort with the 
things which he can imagine. 

Sermon, The Ages to Come. 

" Rachel, how did you like the sermon } " 

" I liked the text." 

" * A new commandment I write unto you, that 
ye love one another.' Rachel, will you help me 
keep it ? " 

Norwood. 

130 



April 29. 



April 30. 



^31 



MAY. 



O Flower-Month, perfect the harvest of flowers. 
Be not niggardly. Search out the cold and resent- 
ful nooks that refused the sun, casting back its rays 
from disdainful ice, and plant flowers even there. 
There is goodness in the worst. There is warmth 
in the coldest. The silent, hopeful, unbreathing 
sun, that will not fret or despond, but carries a 
placid brow through the unwrinkled heavens, at 
length conquers the very rocks, and lichens grow 
and blossom. What shall not Time do that carries 
in its bosom Love ? 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



133 



May I. 

Joseph Addison, 1672. 
Duke of Wellington, 1769. 

Where are Addison, Steele, and Dr. Johnson ? 
I desire to lay before them this question : Ought 
not a person's face, like God's sun, to shine kindly 
upon the just and the unjust ? 

Eyes and Ears. 

There is many a Waterloo that is fought in the 

soul of a man. 

Sermon, Counting the Cost. 



Love is born behind blushing defences. 

Norwood. 



May 2. 

Rev. Robert Hall, 1764. 

I hold with Robert Hall, my original teacher, that 
no church has a right to refuse any man of whom 
there is evidence that Christ has received him. 

Meeting of the Baptist Union. 



Give the boy a handle and let him put in his own 

blade. There's nothing like working out a thing 

yourself. 

Norwood. 

134 



M.\Y I, 



May 2. 



135 



May 3. 

Florence Nightingale, 1823. 
When Florence Nightingale walked out of the 
accustomed sphere of woman's sympathy, and 
organized charity in a far distant land, she raised 
the conception of benevolence and heroism, and it 
will never go down again. 

Sermon, The Moral Training of Suffering. 



The man who does not do more than the law re- 
quires is not a good citizen. 

Sermon, The True Value of Morality. 

May 4. 

[ John J. Audubon, 1780. 
-] William II. Prescott, 1786. 
' Horace Mann, 1796. 
Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825. 
Every man that has the truth owes it to all man- 
kind, and the debt must be paid as fast and as far 
as the providence of God opens the way and makes 
it possible. 

Sermon, The True Economy of Living. 

I am willing that Mr. Huxley should march on. 
Facts will overthrow theories. 

Sermon, The Battle of Benevolence. 



O, that she might live a thousand years, and be 
the ancestress of a thousand just like her ! 

Eyes and Ears. 



May 



May 4. 



137 



May 5. 

Dr. John Wm. Draper, 181 1. 

How many times does a cheerful and hopeful 
physician cure his patients by what he carries in his 
heart and face more than by what he has in his 
medicine case ! 

Eyes and Ears. 

Everything which is made has an errand to us if 
we will hear. 

Star Papers. 

Make up your mind to take time to do your duty. 
Sennon, The Duty of Living Peaceably. 



May 6. 

John Hampden, 1594. 

There is nothing that the world needs to guard 
so much as liberty in thinking and freedom in ex- 
pression. 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



Taking the average of men's lives, they suffer 
more from things that never happen than from 
things that do happen. 

Sermon, Borrowing Trouble. 

138 



May 



May 6. 



139 



May 7. 

Correggio, 1494. 

Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, 1836. 

Sacred art may be called the evangelist of the 
senses. 

Sermon, Bearing but not Overborne. 

Why does a bird sing ? Because there is that in 
him that fires him till he has to sing. 

Sermon, God's Love. 

Nothing is learned until you have learned to for- 
get it and it has become part and parcel of you. 
Sermon, The Kingdom of Heaven. 



May 8. 

Alain Rene Le Sage, 1658. 

In order to bring down the truth to our children, 
bome little story or fable is always necessary. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 



If a man is going to do good when he has made 
money, let him, to prove it, do good in a smaller 
measure while he is making money. 

Sermon, The Deceitfulness of Riches. 

140 



May 7. 



May 8. 



141 



May 9. 

John Brown, 1800. 

John Brown's name will travel through the ages 
as an illustrious example of what a man may do 
who is willing to suffer for a great principle. 

Sermon, The Moral Teaching of Suffering. 



"Feathers! feathers! They are the ruin of 
many souls. The rod is what folks need ! " 

Norwood. 



May to. 

Jared Sparks, 1789. 

Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 181 8. 

The real property established by a man's own 
intelligence and labor is the crystalized man him- 
self. It is the fruit of his life-work. 

Evolution and Religion, Poverty AND THE Gospel. 

This man was divinely ordained. Before any 

man's hands were placed on him God had placed 

his hand on him. 

Sermon, Heroism. 

142 



May 9. 



May 10. 



143 



May II. 

Cardinal Reginald Pole, 1500. 

If you would teach within the church you must 
seek ordination at the hands of men. 

Norwood. 



There is an emery of life that scratches ; there is 
a dust of life that soils and dims. But the pride 
which God gave you should give you wings to soar 
above all such petty vexations. 

Sermon, As Seeing God. 



May 12. 

Justus von Liebig, 1803. 

Natural law, in order to be effectual, needs 
brains. 

Sermon, Special Providence. 



She is one of the fortunate ones who obeys those 
in command and yet always has her own way. 

Norwood. 

The blows which disturb you are the blows which 
on the rocks are letting loose the crystals. 

Sermon, Foretokens of Resurrection. 

144 



May II. 



May 12. 



145 



May 13. 

Every day should be to you a day of royal dis- 
content. 

Sermon, IDEAL STANDARDS OF Duty. 

Wit and humor are the natural antagonists of the 
malign feelings. The devil never laughs. 

Sermon, The Universal Heart of God. 

It seems as though every man were born with a 
lion under him and an angel over him — and the 
angel has a hard time ! 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



May 14. 

Rev. Timothy Dwight, 1752. 
J. M. W. Turner, 1775. 

The higher a man stands among his fellows the 

more scrupulously he is bound to the law of honor 

and purity. 

Sermon, Man-Building. 

We regard Art in its higher offices as a language. 

Eyes and Ears. 



There is a personal service in the most unlikely 
things. 

Sermon, "As to the Lord." 

146 



May 13. 



May 14. 



147 



May 15. 

Michael W. Balfe, 1808. 

God made the soul to be played upon by its 
fellows, by visible nature, by invisible things, and 
more than all by himself. Norwood. 



Is benevolence a real vital principle ? Is every- 
body happier where you go ? 

Sermon, Christian Sympathy. 

He who puts his own interest to rash ventures 
will scarcely do better for others. 

Lectures to Young Men, Causes of Dishonesty. 



May 16. 

Wm. H. Seward, 1801. 
Elizabeth P. Peabody, 1804. 

Education, practical moral culture, are the alpha- 
betic letters by which to develop the literature of 
liberty. Sermon, The Law of Liberty. 

Who more than thou ever lived wholly for 
others? Norwood. 



Every thought of God is medicinal. Every 
function of the divine mind brings health. 

Sermon, The Door. 

148 



May 15. 



May 16. 



149 



May 17. 

Edward Jenner, 1749. 

Joseph Norman Lockyer, 1S36. 

You cannot blame a scientific man for discover- 
ing new truths. There is only one thing he can be 
blamed for, and that is indifference to the effect of 
his discoveries. 

Sermon, The Mission of Truth. 

The stars in the heaven above and the strata in 
the earth beneath are being brought to the stand to 
testify who made them and for what purpose. 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



May 18. 

Hans Makart, 1840. 

Artists who clothe homeliness with beauty have 
brought form and color to bear on the feelings of 
mankind and make them happier. 
Sermon, The Posthumous Influence of Good Men. 



Love is the best schoolmaster. It is the most 
stimulating to growth of all things in the world. It 
is the most refining and the most enriching. 

Sermon, The Reward of Loving. 

150 



May 17. 



May li 



151 



May 19. 

j Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762. 

( John Wilson (Christopher North), 1785. 

No wise man will ever reject or neglect the re- 
sults which have been arrived at by any other wise 
man or any body of wise men. 

Sermon, REASON IN RELIGION. 



Men who carry good-nature in society are as 
much perceived as spicewood is, that carries sweet 
odors. Sermon, Unconscious Influence. 



May 20. 

Albrecht Diirer, 147 1. 
John Stuart Mill, 1806. 

" It is the amount of one's self in a picture that 
determines whether it is made by an artist or an 
artisan." Norwood. 

John Stuart Mill's remark, — " I am what I am by 
the grace of my wife," — was most sweet and 
admirable. Sermon, Soul-Power. 



Men's faculties are like so many violin strings 
that are yet rolled up in oiled paper and lie upon 
the shelf. 

Sermon, VICTORY THROUGH Self-Denial. 

152 



May 19. 



May 20. 



53 



May 21. 

Stephen Girard. 1750. 
Elizabeth Fry, 1780. 

Let a man do a noble thing and the decree of 
God in the constitution of the human soul makes 
everybody see that it is a noble thing. 

Sermon, The Beauty of Moral Qualities. 

We give our life best not when we die, but while 
we are yet living. 
Sermon, Duty of Using One's Life for Others. 



May 22. 

Richard Wagner, 1820. 
Richard Grant White, 1822. 

Where a man like Wagner has a sense of music 
that sets him feeling and developing tone and com- 
binations of tone, he is a genius. 

Sermon, The Highest Things. 

The main thing is that a man shall believe some, 
thing which will govern his life. 

Sermon, CONCEIT. 



Be not afraid that you will not be orthodox. Be 
God's, and then you will be orthodox. 

Sermon, Paul and Demetrius. 

154 



May 21. 



May 22. 



IS5 



May 23. 

Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 18 10. 
Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, 1824. 

It is impossible for an energetic nature to move 
about among men under the force of any great con- 
trolling faculty, and not electrify them. 

Sermon, Outward and Inward Life. 

All that a true soldier wants to know is that he 
has understood his orders. 

Sermon, The Reward of Loving. 



May 24. 

Albert Smith, 18 16. 
Victoria, 18 19. 

Men have come to think that tears are more 
sacred than smiles. No ! Laughing is as divine 
as crying. 

Sermon, The Perfect Manhood. 

There is not reigning on the globe a sovereign 
who commands our simple unaffected respect as 
the beloved Queen of England. 

Speech at Manchester. 



156 



May 24. 



157 



May 25. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803. 

Emerson, the calm, the observational, not an en- 
thusiast in religion, but with patriotism and humanity 
to make him a brave witness. It took seven genera- 
tions of ministers to make one Ralph Waldo 
Emerson. Sermon, Christian Sympathy. 



Only now and then is a pearl found and worn, 
but there are myriads of pearls beneath the waters 
of the sea. Sermon, Heroism. 



May 26. 

Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, 1784. 
Washington A. Roebling, 1836. 

The highest joy lies in the plenary inspiration of 
the highest feelings of the soul. 

Lectures to Young Men, HAPPINESS. 

When that magnificent bridge which will carry 
somebody's name to posterity shall unite these two 
great cities, who can imagine the thinkings, the 
writings, and the trades which have combined to 
make it possible — sinking it below the earthquake's 
hand and lifting it above the reach of the storm } 
Sermon, Working and Waiting. 

158 



May 25. 



May 26. 



59 



May 27. 

Alighieri Dante, 1265. 
Julia Ward Howe, 18 19. 

Men do not unfold their true natures or sing their 
best songs — many of them — in this world. 

Sc7'?uon, Suffering, the Measure of Worth. 

Whatever is right is sexless. It belongs to 
whomever has in him or her the impulse to help, to 
lift up, or to purify. 

Sermon, Women to Preach. 



May 28. 

Thomas Moore, 1780. 
Louis Jean Agassiz, 1807. 

Blessed be that man who knows how by song 
and sweet poetry to lift up homely cares and make 
them fly singing through the air. 

Sermon, The Perfect Manhood. 

Agassiz's view, that men have unfolded gradually 
from a low point, will destroy the misunderstanding 
of religion. 

Sermon, The Mercifulness of the Bible. 

160 



May 27. 



May 280 



161 



May 29. 

Patrick Henry, 1736. 
Gerald Massey, i823. 

There was no dormant faculty in him. He was 
alive all around his soul. 

Sermon, Man-Building. 

He derives his strength from the invisible rather 
than from the visible. 

Serfnon, Fact and Fancy. 



Happiness comes from the concords of one's own 
nature and not from outward circumstances. 

Sermon, Borrovving Trouble. 



May 30. 

Peter the Clreat, 1672. 

If men are to be heroes when the time of emer- 
gency comes, they must be heroes before it comes. 

Sermon, Heroism. 



God be thanked for the obscure who use that 
which is sweet in their own nature to sweeten life 
in humble places. 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 

162 



May 29. 



May 30. 



163 



May 31. 

Alexander Cruden, 1701. 

Does a man wish to be a profound scholar? 
The price which he pays for eminence is that he 
shall enlighten the community as he goes up. 

Eyes and Ears. 



I hate cackling hens and I hate cackling men. 
Men can so work as to find work a pleasure. 

Lecture, iiNWOCiiNT AMUSEMiiNTS. 



164 



May 31. 



165 



JUNE 



The dews bring thee jewels. The winds bring 
perfume. The forests sing to thee. The air is all 
sweetness, as if the angels of God had gone through 
it, bearing spices homeward. The storms are but 
as flocks of mighty birds that spread their wings 
and sing in the high heaven ! The earth cries to 
the heavens, " God is here ! " The heavens cry to 
the earth, " God is here ! " The sea claims Him. 
The land hath Him. His footsteps are upon the 
deep ! He sitteth upon the circle of the earth ! 
Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



167 



June i. 

Henry F. Lyte, 1793. 

Hymns, like God's angels, sing hope to the hearts 
of despairing men. 

Se7'mon, THOUGHTS on Death. 



When the heavens send clouds and they bank up 
the horizon, be sure they have hidden gold in them. 

Eyes and Ears. 

The more laws a man understands, the more 
liberty he has. 

Sermon, Christ's Mission on Earth. 



June 2. 

John Godfrey Saxe, 1S16. 

In this world, where there is so much trouble and 
tears are so much more common than smiles, it is 
a beneficent constitution that enables a man to see 
things in a humorous light. 

Sermon, The Duty of Living Peaceably. 



Wherever we are, we need not lack for a motive 
to perform noble deeds. 

Sermon, "As TO THE Lord." 

168 



June 



June 2. 



169 



June 3. 

Richard Cobden, 1804. 

Prof. Edward L. Youmans, 1821. 

I covet no higher honor than to have my name 
joined to the list of that great company of noble 
Englishmen from whom v^e derived our doctrines 
of liberty. 

Speech at Manchester. 

Any man who has discovered the truth has a 
right to proclaim it, and he is perfectly safe ; nay, 
he is honored. 

Evolution and Religion, The Liberty of Christ. 



June 4. 

Francis Parkman, 1788. 

A man will be what his most cherished feelings 
are. 

Lectures to Youns" Men, Portrait Gallery. 



Mothers are God's chief educators in the world. 
Sermon, Truthfulness. 

"Everybody is handsome whom you love and 
respect." 

Norwood. 

170 



June 



June 4. 



171 



June 5. 

Socrates, 468 B. C. 
Adam Smith, 1723. 

We want ethics for nations and the wholesome 
inheritance of well-regulated minds. 

Sermon, HEREDITY. 



Another man's conscience is not to be judged by 
you. No matter what yours tells you, his tells him 
different, and his is as worthy of respect as yours. 
Sermon, Conscience and its Auxiliaries. 



June 6. 

Nathan Hale, 1755. 

However frivolous the world may be, it never 
fails to admire a man who risks his life for the sake 
of his faith. 
Sermon, Scope and Function of a Christian Life. 



How many have found heaven by following their 
children there ! 

Sermon, CONFLICTS OF THE Christian Life 

It is impossible for one to sweep out of the 
heavens, as with a sponge, all the sacredness of 
God, and be as good a man as he was before. 

Lectures to Young Men. 

172 



June 5. 



June 6. 



173 



June 7. 

John Rennie, 1761, 

The machinery of the world is doing the work of 
about twelve times the whole population of the 
world. 

Sermon, READING. 



If you would keep a little book to find out what 
comes of your forebodings and unnecessary cares, 
I think you would discover that nine in ten are 
superlative ignorances and impertinences. 

Sermon, BORROWING Trouble. 



June 8. 

Robert Schumann, iSio. 
John Everett Millais, 1829. 

If you were to put him on an island in the ocean 
where there was no soul but himself, he would be 
thinking choruses and symphonies. This is what 
we call inspiration or genius. 

Sermon, God's Disinterestedness. 

Artists who are worthy of the name, and who 
give to the higher life of the soul expositions of 
truth on canvas, are silent teachers ; and from age 
to age who shall measure their influence ? 

Sermon, The Immortality of Good Work. 

174 



June 7. 



June 8. 



175 



June 9. 

George Stevenson, lySr. 
John Howard Payne, 1792. 

Inventors who work at the material interests of 
society and make the way of life less flinty — their 
works shall continue. 
Sermon, The Posthumous Influence of Good Men. 

Yearning for sweetness and affection and never 

finding them, but bringing others to the bosom of 

home. 

Sermon, Man's Two Natures. 



• Junk 10. 

Edwin Arnold, 1S32. 

.Songs in the air carry light and knowledge and 
inspiration from one age to another and one land to 
another. 

Evolution and A'eligion, The Hidden Man. 



A stagnant heart, when deeply disturbed, is long 
in settling ; but a living, out-flowing heart carries 
away its sorrows down its own stream and deposits 
them speedily far from the fount. 

Star Papers, Springs and Solitudes. 

176 



June 9. 



Junk 10. 



177 



Junk ii. 

Sensitive folks came to a very poor place when 
they emigrated to this world. 

Sermon, Brain Life in America. 

The art of seeing well is not to think about 
seeing. Things will come to you if you are patient 
and receptive. Eyes and Ears. 

Health is the platform on which all happiness 
must be built. Good appetite, good digestion, and 
good sleep are the elements of health, and industry 
secures them. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 



June 12. 

Harriet Martineau, 1802. 
Charles Kingsley, 1819. 

Prose is the work-day dress in which truths do 
secular duty. Poetry is the royal robe in which 
truth asserts its divine origin. Norwood. 



It requires no grace to stand and do good where 
doing good is spontaneous. 

Lecture Room Talks. 

We are to die for our convictions if need be, but 
we are never to make others die for them. 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 

178 



June ii. 



June 12. 



179 



June 13. 

Dr. Thomas Arnold, 1795. 
Camilla Urso, 1842. 

The power of personal influence is seen where a 
great nature is master in a school, — like him of 
Rugby, who died and left no successor. 

Sermon, Soul-Power. 

Is it not good that the soul shall be tuned ? 
Sermon, The Temporal Advantages of Religion. 



June 14. 

Richard Realf, 1S34. 

Men in this day write a poetry of love. 

Sermon, The Era of Joy. 



There is a spirit in everybody that longs for man- 
hood, and it is our business to find out that spirit 
and if possible to knock at its every door. 

Sermon, Peaceableness. 

180 



June 13. 



June 14. 



181 



June 15. 

Gerritz Rembrandt, 1606. 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1814. 

No man has any call to an artist-life unless God 
has enabled him to see in nature what it is not 
given common eyes to see. 

Norwood. 

If womanhood has gone up in intelligence, in 
influence, in virtue, and religion, the country is 
safe, though its fleets were sunk and its cities were 
burned. 

Sermon, The Advance of a Century. 



June 16. 

If you are wise, you are both conservative and 
progressive. 

Sermon, The Use o\ Ideals. 

Blessed be the man who really loves flowers — 
loves them for their own sake, so that he would sit 
down among them as companions and friends. 
Are not such the owners of the world and the 
richest of all men ? 

Star Papers, A Discourse ON Flowers. 

182 



Junk i6. 



183 



June 17. 

Rev. John Wesley, 1703. 
Charles F. Gounod, 1S18. 

It is an awful thing to be a minister. Who is 
sufficient for these things ? 

Sermon, The Love of Christ. 

I am sorry for anything in Nature that cannot 
make music. 

Sermon, RELIGIOUS Uses of Music. 



Every human being has a right in you, and you 
have a right in every human being. 

Sermon, CHRISTIAN Sympathy. 



June 18. 

Frances Sargent Osgood, 181 1. 

Blessed is she whose eye is serene, whose voice 
is gentle, whose heart is sweet, whose life makes 
happiness. 

Sermon, MAKING Others Happy. 



Be a man always, everywhere, under all circum- 
stances, and never forget that the more sens.tive 
your honor, the higher its pitch, and the nobler its 
aspiration, the better it is for you. 

Sermon, The Basis of Right Action. 

184 



June 17. 



June 18. 



185 



June 19. 

Blaise Pascal, 1623. 
Charles H. Spurgeon, 1S34. 

Pascal, a contemplative Christian. 

Sermon, The Graciousness of Christ. 

The Christian ministry differs from other in- 
fluences, such as institutions, laws, economies and 
books. It is a personal power upon persons. He 
that teaches of God must do it by being like that to 
which he would draw men up. 

Sermon, Liberty and Duty of the Puli^it. 



June 20. 

Salvator Rosa, 161 5. 

Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1743. 

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and 
paints his own nature into his pictures. 

Norwood. 

I believe that household instruction will yet 
supersede all other forms of moral influence. 

Evolution and Religion, The New Birth. 

186 



June 19. 



June 20. 



187 



June 21. 

In its higher form, love is many melodies wrought 
into a harmony. 

Norwood 

It is too often the case that men remember their 

sorrow and do not register their joy. They do not 

put hope over against despair and cheer over against 

gloom. 

Servion, The Worth of Suffering. 

Any dealmg that makes you better inside is 
beneficent. 

Sermon, Faith in Prayer. 



June 22. 

Mary Cowden Clarke, 1809. 

Never before in any land was womanhood at 
such a point of honor and influence as at the 
present day. Nor has she done growing. 

Sermon, The Advance of a Century. 



If, having secured intelligence and refinement, 
you ever do become rich you will not be dependent 
upon your wealth for happiness, and therefore you 
will not be in danger of the vulgar ostentation of 
crude riches. 

Lectures to Young Men, PRACTICAL Hints. 

188 



June 



June 22. 



189 



June 23. 

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, 1646. 

Leibnitz — a Cliristian and a devout man. 

Ser7non, Christ. 

All hail to the men who strike fire from many a 
rock, .so that while they learn physical facts, spirit- 
ual elements may flash out of them. 
Sennon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



One must know how to work who is to know 
how to wait. One must experience fatigue who is 
to appreciate the blessing of rest. 

Sermon, Waiting Upon God. 



June 24. 

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813. 

I testify that there is nothing in all the earth that 
is not rendered more sweet and bright by having 
that communion with God that lifts and refines and 
strengthens the soul itself. 

Sermon, Christ's Mission on Earth. 

I have great respect for all the professions ; but, 
after a very considerable knowledge of the world 
outside of my own profession, I still feel that the 
field in which a minister acts, or may act, is the 
widest field conceivable to the human intelligence. 
Evolution and Religion, The .Signs of the Times, 

190 



June 23. 



June 24. 



191 



June 25. 

John Home Tooke, 1736. 

A book is a garden. A book is an orchard. A 
book is a store-house. A book is a party. It is a 
multitude of counselors. 

Sermon, Reading. 

God is helping- you. Do not be discouraged. 
Sermon, What is vSalvation ? 

Are you a light-bearer to your fellows ? Have 
you ever thought it of yourself, or has anybody ever 
thought it of you ? 

Sermon, Do With Thy Might. 



June 26. 

Philip Doddridge, 1702. 

There is no bird that can sing like a hymn. 

Talks on Hymns. 



Shall we apply the crucible or the mathematical 
rule, or any outward measure, to things that if per- 
ceived at all, must be perceived through the channel 
of higher thoughts and feelings, and disown them 
because they cannot stand the test of the lower 
reason ? 

Sermon, Reason in Religion. 



June 25. 



June 26, 



193 



June 27. 

Who cares for the obscure, the unfortunate, and 
the vicious, but mothers and God ? 

Sermon, The Power that Moves the World. 

A lawyer who works ten months in the year and 
then for two solid months amuses himself, will last 
twice as long as if he took no recreation. 

Servian, Brain Life in America. 

The heart is the alabaster box of precious oint- 
ment, and whatever its affections touch they fill 
with undying fragrance. 

Sermon, The Door. 



Junk 28. 

Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712. 
Guiseppe Mazzini, 1S08. 

Imagination is largely the alphabet out of which 
the real is spelled. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy, 

There is a truth of patriotism, but it is of no 
validity whatever till it makes a patriot. 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



Whoever makes home seems to the young dearer 
and more happy, is a public benefactor. 

Norwood. 

194 



June 27. 



June 28. 



195 



June 29. 

Peter Paul Rubens, 1577. 

A picture which addresses itself plainly and 
strongly to the heart's feelings will always have 
admiration. 

Eyes and Ears. 



I believe in love at first sight — provided it is a 
love that will stand second sight. But it is not 
necessary that one should be as blind as a bat in 
order to be disinterested. 

Sermon, Children. 



June 30. 

Bear your suffering till you know you are the 
master of it, as at first it was master of you. 

Sermon, Problem of Joy and Suffering. 

Her sympathy was so quick, her intuitions so 
fine, that she took hold of all who came near her. 

Norwood. 

Even if a man has nothing to do but turn a 
grindstone or sweep the streets, he had better be 
educated. 

Lectures to Young Men, PRACTICAL IIiNTS. 

196 



June 29. 



June 30. 



197 



JULY. 



Rouse up ! The temperate heats that filled the 
air are raging forward to glow and overfill the 
earth with hotness. Must it be thus in everything, 
that June shall rush toward August ? Or, is it not 
that there are deep and unreached places for whose 
sake the probing sun pierces down its glowing 
hands ? There is a deeper work than June can 
perform. 

Star Papers, The Death OF Our Almanac. 



199 



July i. 

Of all battles there are none like the unrecorded 
battles of the soul. 

Sertnon, The Ideal of Christian Manhood. 

Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most 
flourishes. 

Sermon, Unjust Judgments. 

Her eye is like an open book full of pictures. 
Her presence is peace. 

Sermon, Fact AND Fancy. 



July 2. 

Cranmer, 1489. 

Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825. 

He who loses his life for the sake of truth shall 
lind it with an everlasting finding. 

Sermon, Heroism. 

Literature throws off care and brings knowledge 
to men's minds. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 



Try and render unrequited service joyfully. 

Sermon, The Honor of Serving. 

200 



July i. 



ULY 2. 



20I 



July 3. 

John Copley, 1737. 

Human life is like a half-finished portrait, but no 
man can determine what it is or how it shall look 
when it is perfected. 

Sermon, Evolution of the Idea of God. 



One joy stands solitary, but if you put a second, 

third, fourth, and fifth along, you have a level plain 

of peace. 

Sermon, Christian Joyfulness. 



July 4. 

Nathaniel Hawthorn, 1804. 

Of all the American novelists who have passed 

away, the author of " The House of the Seven 

Gables " seems to me the greatest. 

Interview. 



There is no sacrifice too great to pay for the 
Union unless we sacrifice that for which the Union 
was first made — Liberty ! 

New Star Papers, Patriotism and Liberty. 



JULY 3. 



July 4, 



203 



July 5. 

David G. Farragut, 1801. 

When Farragut drove past hidden dangers into 
the port of Mobile, the example of heroic manhood 
which he exhibited was a treasure to the human 
race which no man can measure. 

Sermon, The Chicago Fire. 



Blessed are they that move around about in 
society so as to lubricate it. 

Sermon, Unconscious Influence. 



July 6. 

John Huss, 1373. 

When truth has, in any age, been apparently 
destroyed it has died only as the seed dies to come 
up again a hundred-fold. 

Evolution and /Religion, The Vitality of God's 
Truth. 



A man who is happy can bear anything in 

creation. 

Sermon, Christian Influence. 

204 



July 5, 



July 6. 



20s 



July 7. 

Joseph Marie Jacquard, 1752. 
" Fanny Fern," 181 r. 

He that makes a machine emancipates me, for if 
matter cannot be made to toil upon matter then 
men must toil upon it. 
Sermon, Duty of Using One's Life for Others. 

When didst thou ever shrink from giving honest 
counsel, because it was bitter ? 

Norwood. 



July 8. 

John de La Fontaine, 1621. 
Fitz Green Halleck, 1790. 

" Prose is truth looking on the ground ; poetry i.^ 
truth flying upward toward God." 

Norwood. 



Some persons, like some soldiers in an army, are 
more, and some are less, exposed ; but all are light- 
ing somewhere on the one side or on the other. 
Evolution and Religion, The Battle of Life. 

206 



July 7. 



July 8. 



207 



July 9. 

Elias Howe, i8ig. 

Just in proportion as you make machine slaves, 
just in that proportion you redeem the mind to 
greater leisure. 

Sermon, Duty OF Using One's Life for Others. 



If God gave you gayety and cheer of spirits, lift 
up the careworn by it. Wherever you go shine and 
sing. 

Sermon, The Perfect Manhood. 



July 10. 

John Calvin, 1509. 
vSanford R. Gififord, 1823 

Old John Calvin — a Christian Plato without 
Plato's heart. 

Sermon, RELIGIOUS CONSTANCY. 

Here is where heavenly beauty may be found, 
Sermon, Counting the Cost. 



A.re you a comforter of men ? Are you in any 
sense a benefactor of men ? 

Sermon, Do With Thy Might. 

208 



July 9. 



July 10. 



209 



July ii. 

John Quincy Adams, 1767. 

If there is anything that should touch the con- 
science, it is the idea of serving faithfully the whole, 
body politic. 

Sermon, Corruption in Public Affairs. 



Do not give as many rich men do, like a hen that 
lays her ^%% and then cackles. 

Sermon, The Perfect Manhood. 



July 12. 

Henry D. Thoreau, 1S17. 
Benjamin P. Shillaber, 1S14. 

Men of large natures carry in their hearts a secret 
garden — a silent wilderness. 

Life of Jesus, the Christ. 

Humor usually tends towards good nature, and 
everything that tends toward good nature tends 
toward good grace. 

Sermon, UnJUST JUDGMENTS. 

210 



July ii, 



July 12. 



211 



July 13. 

Marshal Maurice McMahon, 1808. 
Augustus Hoppin, 1828. 

Ideas are more powerful than bayonets. Tyran- 
nies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated 
by them. 

Sermon, The Love of Money. 

"If laughing's a sin, I don't see what the Lord 
lets so many funny things happen for/' 

Norwood. 



July 14. 

Dr. John Hunter, 1728. 
Dr. Johann Milller, 1801. 

One who has been healed by a faithful physician 
should be the friend of that physician as long as he 
lives. 

Sermon, Healing Virtue in Christ. 



" Talkin' roses and posies to the girls is not be- 
comin' in a deacon." 

Norwood. 

2li2 



July i. 



July 14. 



213 



July 15. 

Cardinal Henry Manning, 1808. 

Such men are priests unto others. As they begin 
higher up than others more is to be expected of 
their beneficence-. 

Sermon, The Door. 



I would as soon undertake to raise my harvest 
by the pale moonbeams instead of the glory and 
fervor of the sun as to undertake to raise anything 
like character by the aesthetic principle. 

Sermon, God's Disinterestedness. 



July 16. 

Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723. 
Julius Froebel, 1805. 

To the end of time the artist will be worth more 
than the artisan, the artisan than the laborer, and 
the laborer than the drudge. 

Sermon, SiGNS OF THE TiMES. 

There is no stimulus comparable to that which 
springs from an active living soul upon living souls. 
Sermon, "As TO THE LORD." 

214 



July 15. 



July 16. 



215 



July 17. 

Dr. Isaac Watts, 1674. 

When Isaac Watts wrote his hymns, do you sup- 
pose he formed the remotest estimate of how like 
an organist at the keys of the human soul they 
would go on playing sweet melodies through 
hundreds of years ? 

Sermon, Law of Hereditary Influence. 



One who hunts for flowers will find flowers ; one 
who loves weeds will find weeds. 

Lectures to Young Men, Porj rait Gallery. 



July 18. 

Gilbert White, 1721. 
Therdse Tietjens, 1831. 

No truth seemed beautiful to him that had not 
leaves and flowers. 

Norwood. 

Blessed are they that can sing ! 

Sermon, The Use of the Tongue. 



There is no joy greater than that of grief over- 

:ome. 

Sermon, Bearln'g but Not Overborne. 

216 



July 17. 



July 18. 



217 



July 19. 

Calmness, courage, hope, and happiness to all in 
her neighborhood. 

Eyes and Ears. 

Let other men's destruction be thy wisdom, for 
it is hard to reap prudence upon the field of ex- 
perience. 

Lectures to Young Men. 

There is no happiness in this world like that 
which one mind can produce upon another. 

Sermon, The Battle of Benevolence. 



July 20. 

Petrarch, 1304. 

The dead poets were never so much alive as 
now, going up and down through the ages chant- 
ing their joyful strains. 

SerjHon, The Immortality of Good Work. 



Having wit and buoyancy of spirits let them flash 
out in the service of religion. Don't consider it 
necessary to rake them up and hide them. 

Sermon, All-Sidedness of Christian Life. 

218 



July 19. 



July 20. 



219 



July 21. 

Matthew Prior, 1664. 

Shining as the sun shines in summer days, with 
such gentleness as to nourish the tenderest flowers. 
Sermon, The Fruit of the Spirit. 



To be a gentleman requires that one shall be a 
full man. 

Sermon, The Perfect Manhood. 

There are persons going about whose souls are 
as an orchestra to everybody that is near them. 
Sermon, The Kingdom of Heaven. 



July 22. 

Giiiseppe Garibaldi, 1807. 

A man who embraces a cause and puts every- 
thing that makes him into that cause is a hero. 
Sermon, ScorE and Function of a Christian Life. 



Was there ever such a slave on the face of God's 
earth as a mother is ? 

Sermon, The Vital Principle. 

The bread which we solicit of God he gives us 
through our own industry. 
Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 

220 



July 21. 



July 22. 



221 



July 23. 

Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), 1480. 

A man who, like Titian, has by nature a large 
element of color, almost needs no education. 

Sermon, The Highest Things. 



Ask for knowledge if you desire it. You would 
ask for food before you would die, and you ought 
to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for 
food for the body. 

Lectures to Young Men, Practical Hints. 



July 24. 

John Newton, 1819. 

Josiah Gilbert Holland, 1819. 

He builds a great thing who builds a pyramid, 
but he a greater thing who builds a character. 

Sej-mon, Working and Waiting. 

Heart-life, soul-life, hope, joy, and love are true 
riches. Such riches a man will carry through the 
grave with him. 

Lectures to Young Men, Happiness. 

222 



July 23. 



July 24. 



223 



July 25. 

Rev. Edward Payson, 1783. 

A man adapted to the higher stages of Christian 
development born to it. 

Sc'fmon, Vekfect Peace. 



Are they worthy of anything but pity who are 
not able to bear the hardships of the voyage when 
they are going home ? 

Sermon, Reward of Loving. 



July 26. 

The habit of acting as though you felt interested 
in other people's happiness, will by and by make 
you so. 

Sermon, Fragments of Instruction. 

The rich man's dunce stands below the poor 
man's smart boy — and vnist. 

Sermon, National Unity. 

224 



July 25. 



July 26. 



225 



July 27. 

Thomas Campbell, 1777. 

"No man can express the great truths of human 
life without employing all his moral and aesthetic 
nature. No man can deliver great truths worthily 
without rising into eloquence and even into poetry." 

Norwood. 

How many prayers have you ever sent up for 
those that hate you ? 

Se7'moii, An Outlook. 



July 28. 

It is growth that emancipates men. 

Sermon, As to the Lord. 

Love is the pilot by which God is to guide this 
old staggering world through darkness and storms 
into the haven of rest. 

Serjnouy The Primacy of Love. 

Is not this gentle reserve that yields to real 
admiration, but hovers aloof from coarse or cold 
indifference, a beautiful trait in women or apple 
trees } 

Eyes and Ears. 

226 



July 27. 



JULY 28. 



227 



July 29. 

5 Jean Baptiste Corot, 1796. 
i Hiram Powers, 1805. 
Alexis Charles Henry de Tocqueville, 1805. 

Art is carrying refinement and comfort and joy 
as it never knew how to do in earlier periods. 

Sermofi, The New Incarnation. 

De Tocqueville was the most far-seeing prophet 
of his time. 

Senrion^ MoRAL Theory of Civil Liberty. 



July 30. 

There is a benevolence in compliment. It tempts 

one to look for agreeable traits among his friends 

and not for faults. 

Eyes and Ears. 

There is above every man's head a height into 

which he may rise, and whether care and trouble 

fret below or tear on, they become alike silent and 

powerless. It is only our affections that mount up 

and dwell with us where bickerings and burdens 

never come. 

Eyes and Ears. 

228 



July 29. 



July 30. 



229 



July 31. 

Gen. George II. Thomas, 1816. 
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, 1835. 

A general whose very name makes every soldier's 
heart bound with zeal and enthusiasm. 

Sermon, Prayer. 

He only who does what others cannot do, is the 

hero. 

Ser}non, Heroism. 



•30 



July 31. 



231 



AUGUST 



Reign, thou fire-month ! What canst thou do ? 
Neither shalt thou destroy the earth, whom frosts 
and ice could not destroy. The vines droop, the 
trees stagger, but every night the sun pities them. 
This is the rejoicing month for joyful insects. If 
our unselfish eye would behold it, it is the most 
populous and the happiest month. The air is 
resonant of insect orchestras, each one carrying his 
part in Nature's grand harmony. August, thou art 
the ripeness of the year! Thou art the glowing 
centre of the circle ! 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



233 



August i. 

George Ticknor, 1791. ' 

Maria Mitchell, 1818. 

The glory of his study was shown at the point of 

application. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 

She knows all the coqiiettings of the sun and 
moon, and all the seasons at which the stars play 
bo-peep with each other. 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac 



August 2. 

Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, 1802. 

Christianity's only eulogy and only apology is the 
lives which are developed by its spirit. 

Sermon, Christianity in Practice. 



A good woman is the best thing God ever made 
under the heaven. 

Sermon, Naboth's Vineyard. 

There is enough of the human element in you to 
spoil you for a machine. 

Sermon, Soul-Power. 

234 



August i. 



August 2. 



235 



August 3. 

Rev. Wm. Ware, 1797. 

Gen. Thomas F. Meagher, 1823. 

To live with a good person is an education. 

Sermon, Soul-Building. 

The whole individual life of a man is a perpetual 
contest with something exterior to himself or some- 
thing in himself. 

Evolution and Religion, The Battle of Life. 



Her heart carries warmth wherever she goes. 
Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 



August 4. 

Percy B)'sshe Shelley, 1792. 

Fancy is itself a fact, — as much an argument as 

a leaf or a stone. 

Norwood. 



The strong can take care of themselves. It is the 
weak that need some forethought to care for them. 

Sermon, HUMANITY. 

An eye and an ear open to every source of in- 
formation. 

Sermon, How Goes the Battle ? 

236 



August 3. 



August 4. 



237 



August 5. 

Straightforward, truthful, and as unbounded in 
kindness as she is energetic in duty. 

Norwood. 

Any man who supports anybody, any man who 
gives what is better than silver or gold, any man 
who gives hope or encouragement to another is 
helping to build God's great temple. 

Sermon, Working with Ctod. 



August 6. 

Daniel O'Connell, 1775= 
A. Bronson Alcott, 17990 
Alfred Tennyson, 1809, 

Can we yield up popularity and success for the 
sake of an unpopular principle ? 

Sermon, The Reproach of Christ. 

Human nature is larger for his living. 

Sermon, MoRAL TEACHING OF Suffering. 

It is a noble thing to see a man so in sympathy 
with his time and work, as Tennyson is, that even 
with expiring strength he still tries to chant the 
truth of God to the age in which he lives. 

Sermon, A Completed Year 

238 



August 5. 



August 6. 



239 



August 7. 

Joseph Rodman Drake, 1795. 

Canon Frederick William Farrar, 1831. 

Made happy by the developing power of a true 
imagination. 

Sermon, Beauty. 

When a large and magnetic nature appears with 
power to grasp men, the moral feeling becomes 
electric and contagious. 

Sermon, The Life of Christ. 



August 8. 

Sir Godfrey Kueller, 1646. 
Benjamin Silliman, 1779. 

The great work of a painter is inside of himself. 
Sermon, WORKING AND Waiting. 

If Nature has a secret, a Yankee will pick the 
lock where it is kept or be eaves-dropping till he 
gets hold of it. 

Norwood. 



Make your courage appear when there is no 
visible ground for encouragement. 

Sermon, " As to the Lord." 

240 



August 7. 



August 8. 



24.1 



August 9. 

John Dryden, 1631. 
Adoniram Judson, 1788. 

Imagination is the architect and reason the 
master-builder. 

Sermon, Growth in the Knowledge of God. 

He who carries to nations a true and vital 
gospel, carries to them seed-forms of a universal 
civilization. 

Sermon, Manhood in America. 



August 10. 

Sir Charles James Napier, 1782. 
Camillo Benson Cavour, 1810. 

Napier's matchless " History of the War of the 
Peninsula" is one of the noblest monuments of 
military history ever given to the world. 

Lectures to Young Men, Practical Hints. 

Count Cavour, the ablest statesman in modern 
Europe. 

Sermon, Paul's Idea of Love. 



God bless the good-natured, for they bless every- 
body else ! 

Eyes and Ears. 
242 



August 9. 



August io. 



243 



August ii. 

Gen. Jean Victor Moreau, 1663. 

Life is a battle and it is to be fought from first to 
last. 

Sermon, All-Sidedness of a Christian Life. 



It seems a great deal better business for a Chris- 
tian man to encourage his fellow-men in well-doing 
than to punish them for wrong thinking. 

Sermon, Working with Errorists. 

Something is not half so dangerous as nothing. 
Sermon, Do with Thy Might. 



August 12. 

There is a universal sympathy with men who 
seek the good of their fellows. 

Sermon, Posthumous Influence of Good Men. 

The highest deeds, the noblest qualities, th*^ 

achievements of one or another in the long round 

of history have been the food of those who came 

after. 

Evolution and Religion, The Growth of Creation. 

244 



August ii. 



August 12. 



245 



August 13. 

Felix Adler, 185 1. 

You cannot find another people in America 
among whom the social virtues are more rigorously- 
taught and observed than among the Israelites. 
Sermon, Jew and Gentile. 

Look up and let the light of hope shine in thy 
face, for God will take care of those who are dear 
to you. 

Sermon, The Immortality of Good Works. 



August 14. 

Letitia E. Landon, 1802. 
Park Benjamin, 1809. 

Blessed are those whose language is like a 
ministering angel, carrying mercy, hope, and pleas- 
ure on every side. 

Sermon, The Use of the Tongue. 



If men reflect upon others some rays of the pros- 
perity which shines upon themselves, wealth is full 
of advantage. 

Lectures to Young Men, Six Warnings. 
246 



August 13. 



August 14. 



247 



August 15. 

Sir Walter Scott, 1771. 
Thomas De Quincey, 1785. 

There is more heroic power in that simple char- 
acter in " The Heart of Midlothian " than in many 
a moral treatise and many a system of moral 
philosophy. 

Sermon, Earthly Immortality. 

Oftentimes fiction is nearer the truth than truth 
itself is. 

Sermon. Fact and Fancy. 



August 16. 

Friendliness is but the outer court. Love is the 
holy of holies. 

Norwood. 

There is no royal road to liberty, to largeness, 
and happiness, except that which comes from the 
perfection and exaltation of your own nature. 

Sermon, Christ, the Emancipator. 

I do not consider a person good-tempered who 

has no temper at all. 

Eyes and Ears. 

248 



August 15, 



August 16. 



249 



August 17, 

Frederica Bremer, 1801. 

Life seemed a voyage along the edge of a great 
spirit-world, out of which would come some infinite 
truth, some revelation. 

Sermon, SouL-PoWER, 



Your best and truest self is divine. 

Sermon, The Past and the Future. 

There is something beside owls in the air. There 
is the whippoorwill and the nightingale. 

Sermon, The Worth of Suffering. 



August 18. 

Charles Francis Adams, 1S07. 

A man should so carry his spirit power and his 
social power that those who are round about him 
should be drawn to him. 

Sermon, Right and Wrong Way of Giving 
Pleasure. 



She does not wear silks kept in a camphor-wood 
trunk. She does not carry a sandal -wood fan. 

Fyes and Ears. 

250 



August 17. 



August 18. 



251 



August 19. 

Man is mere than man knows. Life is grander 
than it shows itself to be. 

Serffton, Divine Influence on the Human Soul. 

Never are you so little alone as in solitude. Never 
are you so little cast off as when you seem utterly 
hopeless. 

Sermon, The Joy that is Set Before Us. 

We can easily count pain-strokes because they 
are infrequent, but health-throbs we do not count 
because they are uncountable. 

Sermon, The Happiness of Life. 



August 20. 

Robert Herrick, 159' 

" A poet thinks in blossoms just as naturally as 
honeysuckles do." 

Norwood. 



Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable. 
They may demand a long time to achieve profit, 
but at length they are profitable. 

Sermon, The Basis of Right Action. 

252 



August 19, 



August 20. 



253 



August 21. 

John 'I'yndall, 1820. 

Studying God's great material globe and its phy- 
sical laws, the rocks, the strata of the earth, and 
finding out what God has been about in the myriads 
of years that have occupied the building of this 
world. 

Sermon, The Golden Net. 



We are organs, and no one has taught us to play 
ourselves. 

Sermon^ Happiness and Sorrow. 



August 22. 

John B. Gough, 1S17. 

Intemperance is the fertile source of crime. Have 
you done anything about it } 

Sermon, Crime and Its Remedy. 



It is good to hear a man thunder once in a while 

if it is genuine and in the right way for a good 

cause. 

Eves and Ears, 

254 



August 21. 



August 22. 



255 



August 23. 

5 Sir Astley Cooper, 1768. 
( Cieorge Leopold Frederich Cuvier, 1769. 
Rev. Roland Hill, 1795. 

The study of the lower animal kingdom tnrough- 
out all the scientific world ranks as high as the study 
of the human body. 

College Address. 

Humor is nearer right than any emotion that we 

have. 

Sermon, Unsust Judgments. 



August 24. 

William Wilber force, 1759. 
Theodore Parker, iSio. 

He that is ever so orthodox, if he does not love, 
is a heretic ; and the greatest heretic, if he loves 
God and loves man, is orthodox. 

Sermon, The Apostolic Theory of Preaching. 

% 

You never put in peril anything that is dear to 
you for the sake cf others, that you are not enrolled 
among the heroic. 

Sermon, Heroism. 

256 



August 23. 



August 24. 



257 



AuctUst 25. 

Francis Bret Harte, 1839. 

}5y imagination and mirthfulness a man may 
minister to the understanding. 

Sermon, Right and Wrong Way of Giving 
Pleasure. 

Men require the sharpening of drill before they 
can discern what is high, what is right, what is 
beautiful, what is divine. 

Sermon, Reason in Religion. 



August 26. 

INIrs. Henry Ward Beecher, 1S12. 

What is the difference between a dew-drop and 
a diamond ? One goes in a moment ; it flashes and 
dies. The other endures. There are hundreds of 
things which are as beautiful as a diamond in their 
moment ; but the endurance of the diamond is 
measured by ages, and so carries on the value. 

Sermon, Immortality. 



August 25. 



August 26. 



259 



August 27. 

Barthold Georg Niebuhr, 1776. 
Edward Beecher, 1803. 

He carried the germs of everything which bore 
fruit in other men's characters and so was in sym- 
pathy with all. 

Norwood. 

No answer has ever been made to Dr. Edward 
Beecher's arguments in " The Conflict of Ages." 
demonstrating that the doctrine of the fall of man 
in Adam had no foothold in Paul's writings. 

Brooklyn Congregational Assoclvtion. 



August 28. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749. 

Goethe's education was living men, active and 
powerful round about him. 

Sermon, Soul-Power. 



Second thoughts are treason when an impulse is 
generous. 

Sermon, Relation of Physical Causes to Spiritual 
States. 

She is as good as goodness. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 

260 



August 27. 



August 28. 



261 



August 29. 

John Locke, 1632. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1S09. 

" What was your head given you for but to use ?" 

Norwood. 



lar stars with the eccentricity of his orbit, and 
coquets the very sun with audacious familiarity. 
Lectures to Younsr Men, Portrait Gallery. 



August 30. 

William Paley, 1743. 

By and by the time will come when good men, 
sublime and sweet, will be dominant in all the 
earth. 

Sermon, The Inheritance of the Meek. 



Uo not wear your nerves where your coat sleeves 
are and carry yourself so that every thing grinds 
and grates upon you. 

Sermon, As Seeing God. 

262 



AUGUST 29. 



August 30. 



263 



August 31. 

Christina Nilsson, 1843. 
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1S44. 

It is much pleasanter to go and hear Nilsson sing 
than to attend primaries. 

Sermon, The Redemption of the Ballot. 

One thing I know — that when we are in the other 
life we shall be more than satisfied ; and that is all 
we need to know. 

Sermoji, Children. 



264 



August 31. 



265 



SEPTEMBER. 



There are thoughts in thy heart of death. Thou 
art doing a secret work, and heaping up treasures 
for another year. Thy robes are luxuriant, but 
worn with softened pride. Not till the heats of 
summer are gone, while all its growths remain, do 
we know the fullness of life. Thou dividest asunder 
August and October, and art thyself molded of 
them both. 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



267 



September i. 

Lydia II. Sigourney, 1791. 

Blessed are they who know how to instruct with- 
out pedantry. 

Set-mon, The Use of the Tongue. 



There can be no civilization without enterprise, 
and no enterprise without plans for iha future. 

Sermon, Evils of Anxious Forethought. 

Sigh, that others may not sigh. 

Sermon, HEROISM. 



September 2. 

John Howard, 1726. 
ilenry George, 1830. 

Over every jail there is a tenderer spirit brooding 
than ever passes in or out through the door. 

Sermon, Waiting upon God. 

A man whose sympathy is not with the strong 
and powerful, but with the multitude. 

Sermon, The Duty of Riches. 

268 



September i. 



September 2. 



269 



September 3. 

There is such a thing as overpowering genius, 
sweetness, and goodness. 

Semion, Enmity. 

Every victory in your personal experience how- 
ever humble, is a part of that spiritual resurrection 
from the dead which is going on all over the world. 
Sermon, Foretokens of Resurrection. 



September 4. 

Phoebe Cary, 1S24, 

Blessed be mirthfulness. It is one of the reno- 
vators of the world. 

Serffion, Peaceahleness. 



Do not be afraid or ashamed of work. 

Sermon, Practical Ethics for the Young. 

What is the use of all the difference between a 
oird and a man if it only leads to vexations } 

Sermoft, Evils of Anxious Forethought. 

270 



September 3. 



September 4. 



271 



September 5. 

Cardinal Richelieu, 15S5. 
Jacob Meyerbeer, 1794. 

A man must do no evil though the Cardinal com- 
mand him. 

Sennon, The Nature of Liberty. 

Music cleanses and inspires the understanding. 

Ser??ion, Right and Wrong Way of GivinCx 
Pleasure. 



Life is a campaign of battles. 

Evolution and Religion, The Battle of Life. 



September 6. 

Marquis de Lafayette, 1757. 
Catherine E. Beecher, 1800. 

Lafayette was a man without guile, without self- 
ishness ; a man whose very bread it ^^■as to love his 
fellow-men. 

New Star Papers, Patriotism and Liberty. 

Suffering perfected her character into self-sacri- 
fice, usefulness and devotion to others. 

Funeral of Catherine E. Beecher. 

272 



September 



September 6. 



273 



September 7. 

(ieorge Louis, Count Buffon, 1707. 

All hail to the great army of men who are ques- 
tioning the secrets of the material globe ! 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



Be ashamed to be dependent. Feel that to take 
care of yourself is honorable. Work out your living 
and so work out your salvation. 

Sermon, Earning a Livelihood. 



September 8. 

August Wilhelm von Schlegel, 1767. 
Emilio Castelar, 1S32. 

Nobody comes into life with a philosophy in his 
head, but with a head that is set to learn philosophy. 
Sermon, The Unity of Man. 

Castelar in old Spain eloquently describing re- 
publicanism — the most impressive man, perhaps, of 
this centuty. 
Evolution and Religion, The Liberty of Christ. 

274. 



Slpiember 



SepteiMhkr 8. 



275 



September 9. 

If you say you cannot afford to read — I beg your 
pardon, — put out your cigar and then you can. 

Sermon, Reading. 

It was in his hour of darkness and weakness that 
he found the hour of heroism. 
Sermon, CuBA, and the Brotherhood of Nations. 

She did right things and doing them brought rich 
feelings and right conduct. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 



September 10. 

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, 1S34. 

They should count themselves signally blessed 

who are endowed with love and imagination and 

taste and music. 

Scr/jion, Making Others Happy. 

I wish the materialists who think that mind is 

matter would teach school a little while or take 

care of children. 

St-rmon, Working and Waiting. 

276 



September 9. 



September 10. 



277 



SEPTEMBKR II. 

James Thompson, 1700. 

As full of songs as the spring day is, with all the 
birds in the woods. 

Sermon, The Unity of Max. 



Our anniversaries should be of our own deepest 
and best experience. 

Sermon, A Completed Year. 

A man gets what he carries. He wakes up in 
others that which is in him. 

Sermon, The Duty of Living Peaceably. 



September 12. 

Charles Dudley Warner, 1829. 

Wit and humor are the most civilizing of all in- 
fluences upon the soul of man. 

Sermon, Conscience and its Auxhjaries. 



To be fully persuaded in your own mind does not 

mean that you are to make everyone agree with 

you. 

Other Men's Consciences. 

278 



StPTEMBER II. 



SkPTKMHKR 12. 



279 



September 13. 

No patriotic man has a right to let a crafty man 
be smarter than he. 

Sermon, The Redemption of the Ballot. 

There is not one single perversion of a man's 
nature that he cannot rectify. 

Sei-mon, The Comforting God. 

She saw real things as if they were visions and 
imaginary things as if they were real. 

Norwood. 



September 14. 

Alexander von Humboldt, 1769. 

How goodly a book God has opened in this 
world with stores of knowledge illimitable, if one 
will only humble himself to receive it ! 

Sennon, Fruits, Flowers, and Farming. 



To be so placed that you cannot suffer is almost 
to be so placed that you cannot be educated. 

Sermon, The Worth of Suffering. 

280 



September 13. 



September 14. 



281 



September 15. 

James Fenimore Cooper, I7S(> 
Tames Gates Percival, 1795. 

The process of fiction has marked the develop- 
nent of civilization all the way up. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 

Those who have set stars of poetry to cheer the 
darkness of the world — certainly they need not fear. 
So-jnon, The Posthumous Influence of Good Men. 



September 16. 

Rev. William A. Muhlenberg, 1796. 

It is a glorious thing to see a man walking full- 
freighted with activity up to the very gate of death. 
Lectures to Youn^ Men, HAPPINESS. 



You are a free, responsible agent, competent to 
consider and determine for yourself what is right 
and what is wrong. 
Sermon, The Nature and Sources of Temptations. 

282 



September 15. 



September 16. 



283 



Septembf.k 17. 

Next to the danger of never experiencing love, is 
the danger of loving. 

Sermon, The Enthusiasm of Love. 

It will make you humble to have high ideals. A 
man who looks up all the time is never a great man 
to himself. 

Sermon, The Use of Ideals. 



September 18. 

Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709. 
Joseph Story, 1779. 

There is what may be called congenital awkward- 
ness, such as old Dr. Sam. Johnson had and never 
got over. 

Sermon, Fighting One Another's Battles. 

The truest judges are those that are the most 
developed toward their ultimate nature. 

Sermon, Conduct, the Index of Feeling. 

284 



September 17. 



September 18. 



285 



September 19. 

Lord Henry Brougham, 1778. 

It takes generations to bring men up to the level 
of that light and liberty in which they can stand in 
their own individual freedom. 

Sermon, The Law of Liberty. 



Never yield up your faith until it lapses into 
fruition. You cannot hope too much, but you may 
easily despond too much. 

Sermon, Salvation by Hope. 



September 20. 

Robert Emmett, 1803. 

A man with the heart and the greatness to suffer 
for his country and his kind. 

Sermon, The Atoning God. 



It matters not whose tactics you drill by. Let 
me see you fight, and after the campaign I will tell 
you who turns out the best soldiers. 

Sermon, Follow Thou Me. 

286 



September 19. 



September 20, 



387 



September 21. 

Savonarola, 1452, 
j Horatio Nelson, 1758. 
( Theodore Winthrop, 1828. 

Was it better that Savonarola should have his 
mouth stopped by the halter, or that he should have 
been permitted to talk on ? 

Evolution and Religion, Liberty and Duty of the 
Pulpit. 

He lifted up before the eyes of men a higher 
ideal of heroism and consecration to duty. 

Sermon, Lessons from the Chicago Fire. 



September 22. 

Michael Faraday, 1791. 
George S. Hillard, 1808. 

Faraday, a Christian man in a scientific circle. 
Sermon, The Debt of Strength. 

Both literature and science are compelled to 
serve. 

Sermon, Keeping the Faith. 



Do not fall into the vulgar idea that the mind is 
a warehouse and education a process of stuffing it 
full of goods, 

Norwood. 

288 



September 21 



Skptember 22, 



September 23. 

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, 184S. 

Nowhere more than in the Scriptures is fiction 
used for purposes of instruction. 

Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 



One who is rightly performing the duties of life 
is worshiping, if worshiping means rendering ac- 
ceptable service to God. 

Sermo7i, Religion in Daily Life. 



September 24. 

Chief Jastice John Marshall, 1755. 

The justice of the peace may appeal up to the 
judge, but the judge never appeals down to the 
justice. And the higher reason is unjudged by the 
lower, though it judges the lower. 

Sermon, REASON IN RELIGION. 



Sorrow is an apple-tree that gives apples which 
when ripe are not sour. 

Sermon, Motives of Action. 

290 



September 24. 



291 



September 25. 

Felicia Hemans, 1794. 
William M. Rossetti, 1829. 

Love makes the poet sing. 

Sermon, Man's Two Natures. 

Genius, and genius alone enables a man to be 

creative. 

Sermon, God's Disinterestedness. 



How often does the coming of a happy-hearted 
friend lift one out of despondency, and before you 
are aware inspire you with hope and cheer ! 

Eyes and Ears. 



September 26. 

Beauty is its ow^n argument. 

Sermon, Man's Two Natures. 

Whatever it is right for any one on earth to do, 
it is all the more right for a Christian to do. 

Ser^non, The Ideal of Christian Experience. 

Go up higher. Take another step. Break off 
from depressing influences, and then be happy day 
by day. 

Sermon, The New Birth. 

292 



September 25. 



September 26. 



293 



September 27. 

George Cruikshank, 1792. 
Epes Sargent. iSj2 

" I never saw any harm in laughing. The whole 
world is full of queer things and it aint my fault it 
I see them." 

Norwood. 

Books are not for furniture, but there is nothing 
that so beautifully furnishes a houss> 

Eyes and Ears. 



You should set your standard high and try to 
reach it. 

Ser?)ion, The Use of Ideals. 



September 28. 

Frances E. Willard, 1S39. 

Do not think that your work is slow because re- 
sults are not near. 

Senno7i, VVorking and Waiting. 



Are you happy ? Are you good ? Do you leave 
a trail of light behind you ? 

Sermon, The New Birth. 

Heart- varnish will cover up innumerable evils and 

defects. 

Eyes and Ears. 

294 



September 27. 



September 28. 



295 



Skptembkr 29. 

There is nothing that sings like a bird ibroagn 
all time as does a herox^ g nion. 

Sermo7i, The Moral Teaching of Suffering. 

Activity with mistakes is better than inactivity 
witliout mistakes. Life carries with it the liability 
to error and so men that are alive are continually 
at fault. 

Sermon, Religious FiiRVOR. 



September 30. 

Are there not saints in commerce as well as m 
the cloister ? 

Sermon, Business Life. 

It is conceit, sometimes, that leads men to thint 
they are not properly rewarded. 

Lectures to Young Men, Practical HiKTS. 

One who has the faculty of judging of things 
accurately on every side has the best oi sense — 
common sense. 

Sermon, Evils of Anxious Forethought. 

290 



September 29. 



September 30. 



297 



OCTOBER. 



Bend thy boughs to the earth, redolent of glow- 
ing fruit. Leaves begin to let go when no wind is 
out, and swing in long waverings to the earth. 
When the gales come through the trees, the yellow 
leaves trail, like sparks at night behind the flying 
engine. The woods are thinner, so that we see the 
heavens plainer, as we lie dreaming on the yet 
warm moss by the singing spring. The year's work 
is done. She walks in gorgeous apparel looking 
upon her long labor, and her serene eye saith, " It 
is God !" 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



299 



OCTOHKR 1. 

Kufus Choate, 1799. 

\\'hen such an one speaks, his words are arrows 
and the hearts of men are targets. 

Lifp: ov Jesus, the Christ. 



Happiness is the music of the soul itself. 
Sermon, Outward Prosperity and Inward Povekty. 

What is the glory of a mother but her household } 
Sermon, The Paternal Government of God. 



October 2. 

Live in a state of mind in which forgiveness v.'ill 
come spontaneously. 

Sermon, God's Disinterestedness. 

" The grave is a tavern where a good many men 
put up, and I never heard that anybody ever com.- 
plained of his fare." 

Norwood. 

" Is not godliness enough ?" No. I have seen 

a great many godly men who lacked much that wa,s 

desirable, 

Sermon, Ideae Christianity, 



October i. 



October 2, 



301 



October 3. 

George Bancroft, 1800. 
George Ripley, 1S02. 

The Past belongs to Gratitude and Regret ; the 
Present, to Contentment and Work ; the Future, to 
Hope and Trust. 

Sermon, Evils of Anxious Forethought. 

Great roads there are between here and the other 
life for great thoughts and great souls. 

Sennon, The Year Among the Nations. 



October 4. 

Fran9ois P. G. Guizot, 1787. 
Jean Fran9ois Millet, 181 5. 

The universal tendency of history is on the whole 
going from low to high, from worse to better, and 
from good toward the perfect. 

Sermon, The Signs of the Times. 

He took the visible for his model, added those 

subtle graces that came from himself — and so was 

an artist. 

Sermcn, Fact and I'^ancy. 

302 



October 3. 



October 4. 



303 



October 5. 

Jonathan Edwards, 1703. 

No man can tell how much we are indebted to 
Jonathan Edwards, yet if the angel Gabriel were 
sent to read " Edwards on the Affections " he would 
hang his harp on the willow and think he had no 
right to be saved. 

Sermofi, The Mercifulness of the Bible. 



With a whole heaven before you, child of God, 
child of eternity, brother of the whole race, now 
sing and go forth in your gayety. 

Sermon, The Law of Benevolence. 



October 6. 

Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, 1821. 

Song is the wing by which we rise higher with 
easier beats than by any other ministration. 

Sermon, The Social Principle in Religion. 



Do not be one of the men who will bow down in 
reverence before a text, and jump a fact. 

Sermon, God's Grace. 

Everybody wants people to think that his trouble? 
are worse than anybody else's. 

Sermon, Bearing but Not Overborne. 



October 



October 6. 



305 



October 7. 

Jan Van Eyck, 1370. 

You cannot stand before one of A^an Ej-ck's pic- 
tures without tears in your eyes. 

Se7v?ioit, The Beau ty of iNIoral Qualities. 



Work shall drive out Drudgery and bring in 
Leisure, and men shall eat their bread under cool 
shadows with unsweated brows. 

Norwood. 



October 8. 

Harrison Gray Otis, 1765, 
Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1S33. 

These are the men that might lead the world I 
Sermon, l^ERFECT Peace. 

He who breathes truth in a poem and gives it 
wings, so it goes through the air cheering men, 
lives after death. 

Sermon, Thoughts (^f Death. 

306 



October 7. 



October 8. 



307 



October 9. 

Giuseppe Verdi, 1S14. 
Harriet (j. Ilosmer, 

The fingers of Nature touching the faculties of 
the human soul produce effects not by the magni- 
tude of the thing acting, but by the power within 
the instrument touched. 

Eyes and Ears. 

If woman can paint or carve no man shall say, 
This does not belong to womanhood. 

Sermon, Women 'jo Preach. 



October 10. 

Benjamin West, 1738. 
Hugh Miller, 1S02. 

A true master of art, whose education and dis- 
position led him to love the things which the race 
loves and to paint them, because the life of the 
people is the life of God. 

Eyes and Ears 

Hugh Miller, the quarry man, proved the truth of 
the maxim, Where there's a will there's a way. 

Lectures to Young Men, Practical Hints, 

.308 



October 9. 



October 10. 



309 



October ii. 

Theodore Thomas, 1835. 

There never has been a time when man as a 
thinking, willing, executive creature was so poten- 
tial as he is to-day. The brain of man is a far- 
more powerful instrument than it ever was before. 
It throws out more forces and is developing greater 
effects. 

Sermon, liow Goes the Uattle ? 



You are a band of music yourself ! 

SerjHon, The Use of the Tongue. 



October 12. 

Lyman Beecher, 1775. 

When in hours of transfiguration his heart re- 
vealed the tenderness of his love, it was almost like 
opening a window in heaven. 

Star Papers, LymaTvI JbEECHEit. 



By your trials and sufferings you are being made 
beautiful. Do not count them to be the most 
fortunate who seem farthest removed from God's 
discipline. 

Sermon, Beauty. 

310 



October ii. 



October 12. 



3" 



October 13, 

Beware of seeking more than you earn. With 
what will you buy her heart ? 

Norwood. 

It is not you that preserves the truth any more 
than it is the pickaxe that discovers gold when it is 
used in the hand of the miner to dig gold out of the 
earth. 

Sermon, The Power of God's Truth. 



October 14. 

William Penn, 1644. 
Edward Laskar, 1829. 

History was made radiant by this character. 

Sermon, CONDUCT, the Index of Feeling. 

How royal is such a man ! 

Ser?non, Spiritual Manhood. 



There is many a woman who is heroic because 
she can hold her tongue. 

Sermon, The Use (^f Ideals. 

312 



October 13. 



October 140 



313 



October 15. 

How infinite the space, how transcendent the 
capacity, which belongs to the human soul ! 

Sermon, The New Testament Theory of 
Evolution. 

Listen in yourself to that which is best. 

Sermon, The True Knowledge of God. 

Wherever you are in life make the best of your 
circtimstances. Remember that you have all the 
time there is, in the direction of eternity. 

Sermon, The Right Use of Retrospection. 



October 16. 

Noah Webster, 1758. 

The great man distributes himself, is buried, and 
lives again in the tendencies which he has created. 
Evolution and Religion, Vitality of God's Truth. 



A true woman furnishes any room and subdues 
its very walls to humane and gentle expression. 

Norwood. 

314 



October 15. 



October 16, 



315 



October 17. 

A thing that is sacred to other people ought 
always to be respected by you. 

Sermon, OTHER Men's Consciences. 

Who can afford a victory gained by a defect of 
his virtue ? 

Lectures to Young Men, Six Warnings. 

It is in the power of some men to say No to you, 
so that it shall be filled with more blessings than 
the Yes of other men. 

Sermon, Unprofitable Servants. 



October 18. 

Helen Hunt Jackson, 1S31. 

" The angels take care of you, — if there is one of 
them good enough !" 

Norwood. 



He only is a man and she only is a woman, who 
are adequate to the circumstances in which God's 
providence puts them. 

Sermon, The Right Use of Retrospection. 

316 



October 17. 



October 18. 



3^7 



October 19. 

John Adams, 1735. 
James Leigh Hunt, 1784. 

It is possible in any sphere for a man to put into 
his work the best part of himself. 

Sermon, Earning a Livelihood. 

" He radiated from his nature a perpetual June." 

Norwood. 



Never bear your cross till it is laid upon your 
shoulder. 

Sermon, The God of Comfort. 



October 20. 

Sir Christopher Wren, 1632. 
Thomas Hughes, 1823. 

All London was his monument. 

Sermon, WORKING AND WAITING. 

Thomas Hughes could not speak of Arnold of 
Rugby without tears and without saying, " From 
the foundation to the roof-tree, everything that I am 
I owe to that man !" 

Sermon, The Privilege of Working. 



318 



October k 



October 20. 



319 



October 21. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772. 
Alphonse Lamartine, 1790. 

The masterpieces of literature, as well as those 
of art, are known to have received their extreme 
finish from an almost incredible continuance of 
labor upon them. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 

Why are you snubbed by care— you who are the 
emblem of power in the universe — you who repre- 
sent brain-power, soul-power, God-power ? 

Sermon, Christian Joyfulness. 



October 22. 

Dr. Leopold Damrosch, 1832. 

He that is called of God to be a musician is 
simply called to prepare himself to be a musician. 
Sermon, Spiritual Fruit Culture, 



By the voice, the eye, the hand, the soul, make 
those about you happier. 

Sermon, The Law of Benevolence. 

320 



October 21. 



October 22. 



321 



October 23, 

In the administration of public affairs the most 
romantic notions of integrity are not extravagant. 
Lectures to Young Men, Portrait Gallery. 

A soul's power to produce pleasure or pain in 
others, is very great. 

Sermon, Making Others Happy. 

" It would do you good to look in her closets and 
cupboards !" 

Norwood. 



October 24. 

Sir Moses Montefiore, 1784. 
Sarah J. Hale, 1790. 

The secret of Israelitish eminence and excellence 
was and is family life feeding upon all the sources 
of heroism that belong to their national life. 

Evolution and Religion, Growth in Creation. 

The day is passed when a woman will be taught 
that her only business is to rock the cradle. 

Sermon, The Temperance Question. 

322 



October 



October 24. 



323 



October 25. 

Every true cross-bearer learns to carry his cross 
as if it were an ornament. 

Sermon, Bearing but Not Overborne. 

How blessed are they who are half way in 
heaven when they sit in their mother's lap ! 

Sermon, God's Grace. 

You are to take your direction, be sure it is right ; 
make a fire, put on steam, and go ahead. 

Sermon, Motives of Action. 



October 26. 

Charles Sprague, 1791. 
Henry M. Stanley, 1843. 

All genius of singing poets that is benevolent is 

divine. 

Sermon, Permanence of Love. 

There was more of the heart of the Gospel in 
Stanley's simple fulfilment of duty and promise than 
if he had sent a million Bibles to Zanzibar. 

Inte>-view, Henry M. Stanley. 

324 



ULTUBER 2: 



OCTOBKR 26. 



325 



October 27. 

Benjamin F. Wade, 1800. 

Never remitting his testimony for liberty. 

Sermon, The Secret ok Beauty 



There is a process of airy resurrection from age 

to age going on of all that is greatly good in eminent 

natures, overhanging us, raining down influences 

upon us. 

Evolution and Religion, The Growth of Creation. 



October 28. 

Anna E. Dickinson, 1842. 

If a woman can medicate humanity by public 
services, 1 would have her do it. 

Sermon, Women to Preach. 



To let the storm beat over you, roar around you 
and leave you undismayed — this is to be a man. 
Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 

326 



October 27. 



October 28. 



W 



October 29. 

James Boswell, 1740. 
John Keats, 1796. 

The exhilaration of a true and manly friendship 
lies in the thought of its continuance. There can 
be no deep friendship which does not sigh for end- 
lessness. 

Sermon, IMMORTALITY. 

Think of lying upon clean straw in an ample 
barn, reading books of natural history, or sucking 
the honey out of Keats ! 

Eves and Ears. 



October 30. 

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800. 
Adelaide A. Proctor, 1825. 

He who frames into noble English discourse the 
truths which every human soul needs, can never be 
forgotten. 

Sermon, Thoughts of Death. 

Like a peaceful suinmer's day, like a sweet 
autumnal night, like a balmy, nourishing atmos- 
phere. 

Sermon, The Fkurr ok the Spirit. 

328 



October 29. 



;29 



October 31. 

Let your ambition be no longer on a level, but 
high up where heaven is, 

Sermojt, Moral Truths. 

Men stamped with the brand of suffering have 
God's mark upon them. 

Norwood. 

A glowing patriot a telling stories is a dangerous 
antagonist. It is hard to expose the fallacy of a 
hearty laugh. 

Lectures to Yotmg Men, Portrait Gallery. 



330 



October 31. 



331 



NOVEMBER. 



Patient watcher, thou art asking to lay down thy 
tasks. Life to thee, now, is only a task accom- 
plished. In the night-time thou liest down, and the 
messengers of winter deck thee with hoar frosts for 
the burial. The morning looks upon thy jewels, 
and they perish while it gazes. Wilt thou not 
come, O December? 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



333 



November i. 

Sir Matthew Hale, i6oy. 
Antonio Canova, 1757. 
Vincenzo Bellini, 1802. 

He leavened the age in which he lived. 

Sermon, Religious Controversy. 

A picture or statue that touches affection or 
moral sentiment, will speak in a language which 
men understand. 

Eyes and Ears, 

Sweet melodies that no one can hear without 
having his heart beat faster for the sound. 

Talk on Hymns. 



November 2. 

Benj. Perley Poore, 1820, 

Newspapers are the wings that carry human ex- 
perience, order, and law all over the country. If 
they were dropped, society would fall back a thou- 
sand years. 

Evolution and Reli<fion, God in the World. 



Have you a little chair of infallibility upon which 
you seat yourself and decide upon what is wrong 
without any possibility of error .'' 

Sermon, Conscience and its Auxiliaries. 

334 



NoVEjNIBER I, 



November 2. 



\ 



335 



November 3, 

William Cullen Bryant, 1797. 
" Mark Twain," 1835. 

In this world where hearts ache so easily, how 
grateful we ought to be when God sends us a 
natural heart-singer who calms, cheers, and helps 
his fellows ! 

Eyes and Ears. 

" There never was a kinder creetur nor a better 

man if it wa'n't for that wicked levity, and I don'f 

see that he gets over it a mite." 

Norwood. 



November 4. 

Rev. Augustus M. Toplady, 1740. 
James Montgomery, 1771. 

Toplady and Wesley could not preach together 
or live together in England. But they can be shut 
up in a hymn-book together without any trouble. 
Hymns never quarrel. 

Lecture Room Talks, Revivals of Religion. 



Do not wait for lightning-like emotions. Enroll 
yourself as a scholar. Heaven is on your side. 

Sermon, Resolving and Doing. 

336 



November 



November 4. 



337 



November 5. 

Washington Allston, 1779. 

It is the artist's brain that combines, shapes, 
gives color and proportion and brings out the great 

picture. 

Ser?non, Relation of Divine Providence to 
Natural Law. 



Let your ambition no longer be on a low level, 
but high up where heaven is. 

Sermon, Moral Truths. 



November 6. 

James Gregory, 1638. 

He invented not because he was asked to, but be - 
cause invention was in him. 

Sermon, God's Disinterestedness. 



Real suffering ought to make you stronger, finer, 
and better than tempered steel. 

Sermon, Victory of Hope in Sorrow. 

" What are you singing about ?" 
" Everything and nothing. It is because I am so 
happy that I sing." 

Norwood. 

338 



November 



NOVEMBE-R 6. 



339 



November 7. 

Robert Dale Owen, 1801. 

That subtle sympathy with invisible things which 
produces interiorness and depth of character. 

Norwood. 



Beware of getting the reputation of being smart 
at the expense of others. 

Sermon, The Duty of Living Peaceably. 

Does summer shine out of your soul and make 
summer for others } 

Sermon, Christian Sympathy. 



November 8. 

William Wirt, 1772. 

The heroes of the world have been made up of 
moral qualities. 

Sermon, CoxDUcr, the Index ok Feeling. 



Work out your own salvation, for there is an 
everlasting summer that rains down its influence 
upon you. 

Sermon, God's Way and Our Way. 

340 



N(JVEAIBER 7. 



November 



341 



November 9. 

Never deliberate on your word, but let it go as 
the arrow goes to the target — let it strike and 
stand. 

Lectures to Young AI en. Practical Hints. 

We don't suppose that flowers know how sweet 
they are. 

Sermon, Apple-Trees in Love. 

No schoolmaster could teach men as much wis- 
dom as those things do which men count it a mis- 
fortune to meet or endure. 

Sermon, Genius and Industry. 



November 10. 

Martin Luther, 1483. 
Oliver Goldsmith, 1728. 
Frederick Schiller, 1759. 

Grand indeed was Luther ! And yet in midsum- 
mer, August is not more full of tempestuous 
thunderbolts than he was of passions 

Sermon, PRIVILEGES OK THE CHRISTIAN. 

Imagination is the angel of God's presence, con- 
stantly making you see something higher and 
better. 

Sermon, The Realm of Restfulness. 

342 



November 9. 



November 10. 



343 



November ii. 

Look up ! P'orget yourself as far as you can. As 
much as possible fly out of your sufferings. 

Sermon, Salvation by Hope. 

"What a pity that such a man should have no 
sphere worthy of his nature ! * 

" What a happy land that can afford to have such 
men for its private citizens !" 

NORVVOODo 



November 12. 

Richard Baxter, 1615. 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1816. 
Rev. Ray Palmer, 180S. 

All hail to the men who search after God's foot- 
prints ! 

Ser/non, The Unity of Man. 

It can never again be adopted in our time that a 
woman is to know nothing outside of her own 
family. She who is in sympathy with all that con- 
cerns husbands and fathers, is the most fit to rear 
her sons. 

Sermon, Women to Preach. 

The form of presenting truths by hymns is the 
highest form of presenting it. 

Sermon, The Religious Uses of Music. 

344 



November ii. 



November 12. 



345 



November 13. 

Leave whining for the dogs. You are a child of 

God. 

Sermon, The Past and the Future. 

There is scarcely one man in a hundred who 
supposes that he must ask leave of his stomach to 
be a happy man. 

Lechires to Young Men, Practical Hints. 

There ought to be joy in you which should at all 
times make you independent of your circumstances. 
Sermon, Christian Joyfulness. 



November 14. 

Sir Charles Lyell, 1797. 

No longer does Moses stand face to face with 
God on the mountain top, but men go to the 
mountains to inquire what God has written there 
by the hand of creation. 

Sermon, The Golden Net. 

One of those fortunate natures that receive bene- 
fit from all and injury from none. 

Norwood. 

346 



November 13. 



November 14. 



347 



November i k. 

William Pitt, Lord Chatham, 170S. 

WiHiam Cowper, 1731. 

vSir William Herschel, 1738. 

A great heart that turned the current of emotion 
into practical deeds. Sermon, Fact and Fancy. 

How interesting trifles may become, you may see 
by reading Cowper's letters, which for simple beauty 
have never been surpassed in English epistolary 
literature. 

Star Papers, A Heart in Little Things. 

The names which we cherish are those of men 
who benefited their kind. 

Lccinrcs to Young Men, HAPPINESS. 

November 16. 

John Bright, 1811. 

These shores do not contain a nobler or purer 
patriot than John Bright. 

Farewell Meeting, Liverpool. 



When a person is cross before breakfast that is a 
good time for him to take up his cross by keeping 
his temper. Sermon, Religion in Daily Life. 

There ought to be more sacredness attaching to 

a man's word than there is. 

Lecture Room Taijks. 

348 



November 15. 



November 16. 



349 



NOVF.MBER 17. 

Stephen S. Foster, 1809 

Disdaining lies, craft, cruelty, and selfishness. 
Sermon, Scope and Functk^n of a Christian Life 



The secret of happiness lies in the health of the 
whole mind and in giving to each faculty due occu- 
pation in the natural order of their superiorities, — 
the Divine, first ; the human, second ; the material, 
last. 

Star Papers, Nature a Minister to Happiness. 



NOVEMP.KR 18. 

There is often something to be done by lying still 
as well as by moving about. 

Sermon, Working with God. 

A harmonious nature, well chorded, even in 
quality, self-restrained, and with force enough to 
throw out a continual infiuence. 

Sermon, Beauty. 

3SO 



November 17. 



November 18. 



351 



November 19. 

Ferdinand de Lesseps, 1805. 
James Abram Garfield, 1S31. 

Things which are voluminous, intricate, complex, 
superior, excellent in all their elements, demand 
genius for their conception and time for their 
evolution. 

Ser/iton, Working and Waiting. 

He was a Christian man, a good father, husband, 
and neighbor ; a man whose life has been the earn- 
ing of a character that should rank him among the 
good men of the earth. 

Sermon, James A. Garfield. 



November 20. 

Thomas Chattertcn, 17520 

Like a harp not subjected to rude and random 
touches, but swept by a skilful hand. 

Sermon, The Perfect Man. 



Do you scatter blessings about you like the 

mignonette whose blossom you scarcely notice, but 

which sheds its fragrance about and arrests the 

attention of every one ? 

Sermon, The New Birth. 



352 



November 19. 



November 20. 



353 



November 21. 

Would it be ma?is\a.ughler to kill a fool ? 

Sermon, MoTHS. 

Steamships do not care whether the wind blows 
or not, because they have internal motive forces ; 
but we are not steamships and we need troubles as 
winds do to bear us on. 

Sermon, Problem of Joy and Suffering. 



November 22. 

George Eliot, 1820. 
Abby Morton Diaz, 1821. 

Full of that temperature and atmosphere which 
comes irom the combined light of the higher ele- 
ments of the soul. 

Sermon, The Fruit of the Spirit. 

Women are a new race, recreated since the world 
received Christianity. 

Star Papers The LouvRE. 

354 



November 21. 



November 22. 



355 



November 23. 

Theodore \Velcl, 1803. 

In no way turbulent, in no way stirred up with 
muddy passions, gentle, cheerful, faithful, — a wit- 
ness. 

Sermon, The Secret of Beauty. 



Go through life with the reaper's song in your 

mouth, and when you die carry your sheaves with 

you. 

Sermon, Past and Future. 



November 24. 

Grace Darling, 181 5. 

When Grace Darling ventured at her own peril 
to save the lives of strangers, she not only saved 
their lives, but she raised the tone of heroism in the 
whole world. 

Sermon, The Moral Teaching of Suffering. 



Love is the best schoolmaster. It is the most 
stimulating to growth of all things in the world. 
It is the most refining and enriching. 

Sermon, The Reward of Loving. 

356 



November 24. 



357 



November 25. 

1 he very ideal and pattern of a saint. 

Sermon, The Farm. 

Where is there any diadem that crowns a father's 
head as his children do ? 

Sermon, The Paternal Government ok God. 

When men made the tread-wheel they imitated 

God's globe ; lor when people are on tread-wheels, 

however much they may want to sit down, they do 

not do it. 

Sermon, The Use of Ideals. 



November 26. 

Rejoice not in what you have done, but in what 
you are going to do. 

Sermon, The Prize of the High Calling. 

If industry brings nothing back and saves 
nothing, it will save the man. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 

I think many a man has looked back from heaven 
and thanked God that he had a chance to bless 
mankind by building good houses. 

Sermon, Earthly Immortality. 

358 



November 25. 



November 26. 



359 



November 27. 

Sir Julius Benedict, 1804. 

Under tears and pains and cries and witii ten 
thousand things that seem to be jangling discords, 
the tuning hand of God is at work and little by 
little we are being brought up higher and higher. 
Sermon, The Sympathy of Christ. 



The mistake of men is not that they want joy, 
but that they are unwise as to the kind of joy that 
they shall have. 

Sermon, The Narrow \\'av. 



November 28. 

William Blake, 1757. 
Victor Cousin, 1792. 
George Ticknor Curtis, 1S12. 

A simple landscape wrought out in the spirit of 
love shall diffuse more happiness than some men 
do in a life-time. 

Norwood. 

To be born with a mind carries with it the right 
to unfold that mind. 

Sermon, The Spirit of the Cradle. 

Conscientious in purpose, earnest in spirit, studious 
of right ways. 

Sermon, Conduct, the Index of Feeling. 

360 



November 27. 



November 28. 



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November 29. 

Sir Philip Sidney, 1554. 
Wendell Phillips, 1811. 
Louisa M. Alcott, 1832. 

The gentleman is a natural king. He has the in- 
tuition of people's nature, and can touch just the 
spot in them that is sweetest. 

Norwood. 

The nation slept, and God wanted a trumpet, 
sharp, far-sounding, narrow and intense ; and that 
was Wendell Phillips. 

Commemorative Discourse. 

With literature that is light and gay and comfort- 
ing, how beneficent you are ! 

Serinon, The Use of the Tongue. 



November 30, 

John Bunyan, 1628. 

I feel worried and annoyed to see the worthless 

names of men who were in their life great by the 

outside only or chiefly, while I feel inspired to stand 

by the spot which bears the name of such a man as 

John Bunyan. 

Star Papers. 

You are carrying more sorrows than you need to. 
Sermon, As Seeing God. 

362 



November 29. 



November 30, 



363 



DECEMBER 



Silently the month advances. There is nothing 
to destroy, but much to bury. Bury, then, thou 
snow, that fallest through the still air. Bury all 
that the year hath known, and let thy brilliant stars, 
that never shine as they do in thy frostiest nights, 
behold the work ! Thou art the month of resur- 
rection. In thee, the Christ came. Every star, 
that looks down upon thy labor and toil of burial, 
knows that all things shall come forth again. Death 
shall live. Life shall rejoice. It is life ! It is life 
through the whole year. 

Star Papers, The Death of Our Almanac. 



365 



Dkx: EMBER 1. 

A man can make himself sovereign if he has but 

the purpose. 

Scniiou, The Two Rf.velations. 

There is many a fine feather that lives in a chim- 
ney corner. 

Sermon, Chimney Swallows. 

There is not a person who lives on the globe that 
i?. not a fit object for your sympathy and helpfulness. 
Sermon, Bearing One Another's Burdens. 



December i. 

You cannot reveal faster than men are them- 
selves developed. 

Star Papers, Possibilities of the Future. 

That which is good for your head is good for 
your feet. That which is good or bad for your 
right hand is good or bad for your left hand. You 
cannot give paralysis to one side and have the other 
go on its way rejoicing. 
Sermon, Cuba, and the Bro riiERHOon ok Nations. 

366 



December i. 



December 2. 



367 



Dfx:emp.er 3. 

Isaac T. Hopper, 1771. 

Gen. George 11. McClellan, 1S26. 

How few know as he did, how to forget self ! 

Sermon, Heroism. 

A great warrior who is also a great ina7i carries 
everybody captive. 

Sermon, Soul-Powfr. 



DpX EMBER 4. 

Rev. John Cotton, 1585. 
Thomas Carlyle, 1795. 

No man has a call to preach unless other men 
are called to hear him. 

Sermon, The Preacher's Commission. 

Singularity is the right of every honest man. If 
to speak what you think makes }ou singular, 
blessed be God for your singularity. 

Ser7non, The Basis of Right Action. 



\ 368 



December 3. 



DeCExAIBER 4. 



369 



December 5. 

Gen. George A. Custer, 1S39. 

Vigilance and courage are soldierly qualities that 

are perpetually required in spiritual as well as in 

physical life. 

Sermon to Thirteenth Regiment. 



A mistake is often more instructive than a suc- 
cess, but it is not everybody w^ho can afford so dear 
a schoolmaster. 

Eyes and Ears. 



December 6. 

Ghosts and giants are nothing to her. She has 
her broom and dust-pan. 

Eyes and Ears. 

A good character, good habits and iron industry 
are impregnable to all the assaults of all the ill luck 
that fools ever dreamed of. 

Lectures to Young Men, Industry and Idleness. 

What has made you so broad, so deep, so rich ? 
God took you in his strong hand and shook you by 
his north wind and rolled you in his snows and 
beat you as a flail beats grain till the straw is gone 
and the wheat is left. 

Sermon, The God of Comfort. 

370 



Dkckmbkr 



December 6. 



371 



December 7. 

A nature large and luminous. 

Eyes and Ears. 

If God had meant men to be polished and var- 
nished like the vase for the shelf, he would have 
made them so. 

Sermon, BEARiNci but Not Overborne. 

Work in hope and contentment knowing that 
you are doing more than you can see or measure. 
Sermon, The Immortality of Good Works. 



December 8. 

Elihu Burritt, iSii. 
Robert Collyer, 1823. 

Blacksmiths love to speak of the yet uncanonized 

St. Elihu Burritt. 

Eyes .and Ears. 

If the blacksmith hammers out his learning at 
night by the forge and becomes able to speak ten 
languages, there is no use for the college. 

Sermon, The Fruit of the Spiri 1 . 

372 



December 7. 



December 8. 



373 



December 9. 

John Milton, 1608. 

If only Milton's imagination could have con- 
ceived his visions, his consummate industry only 
could have carved the immortal lines which enshrine 
them. 

Lectures to Voting Men, Industry and Idleness. 



Always an angel of mercy. 

Norwood. 

Pity others until there be no pity left for your- 
self. 

Sermon, A Completkd Year. 



Dkceiviher 10. 

Sorrow is the contlict of men on their way to 
themselves. 

Sennon, Problem of Joy and Suffering. 

Whatever is good, by and by looks good. Who- 
ever is deep-souled gives that expression to the 

countenance. 

Sermon, The Secret ok Beauty. 

If your wife is worthy of you she will share your 
poverty with a courage which shall shame your 
fears and lead you unshrinking through its wilder- 
ness. 

Lectures to Young Men. 

374 



December 9. 



December 10. 



375 



DKCEMBEK II. 

Charles Wesley, 1757. 

Wesley's hymns of inspiration will like soldiers 
of light go inarching on, slaying doubt and un- 
belief to the end of time. 

Sermon, Law of IIekeditary Influence. 



Sometimes a house is dark because angels are 
spreading their wings over it. 

Sermon, The Worth of Suffering. 

Be true to your political obligations. 

Sermon, The Duty of Living Peaceably. 



December 12. 

William Lloyd Garrison, 1804. 

Garrison, all his life a foot-ball under fools' feet, 
had more happiness than the most successful man 
in political life. 

Sermon, Special Divine Providence. 



Few persons could afford to review the things 
to-day that vexed them yesterday. 

Lyes and Ears. 

376 



December h. 



December 12. 



377 



T^KC EMBER 13 

^ Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 181 5. 
( Phillips Brooks, 1835. 

" A minister is a genius in moral ideas as a poet 
is in beautiful ideas and an inventor in physical 
ideas." 

Norwood. 



A life full of cares is like a wagon with no oil on 
its axles, which groans all the time. 

Sermon, As Skeing God. 



December 14. 

Frances l-iidley Havergal, 1836. 

To live in such a way that from you shall pro- 
ceed an influence that comforts, cheers and in- 
structs is to use life as a perpetual benefaction. 

Sermon, Using One's Life for Others. 



Remember that an anchor can be of no service 
that does not touch bottom. 

Sermon, The True Value of Morality. 



December 13. 



December 14. 



379 



Di-.cF.AinKK 15. 

All the fine linen of the saints is not that which 
is made up into ascension robes. Some of it may 
yet be found in bureau drawers. 

Norwood, 

Of all things on earth next to his God, a broken 
man should cling to a courageous industry. 

Lectures to Young Men, INDUSTRY and Idleness. 

What a glow and light she carries to others ! 

Sermon, Character and Reputation. 



December 16. 

George Whitefield, 1714. 
Mary Russell iNIitford, 1786, 

Sometimes indignation is as good as thunder. 
Love without it is as insipid as molasses. 

Sermofi, The Paternal Government of God. 

Come near and you will find that this woman's 
\ieart is full of peace and gladness. 

Sen/ion, The True Economy of Livino. 

380 



December 



December i6. 



381 



December 17. 

Ludwig Beethoven, 1770. 
Sir Humphrey Davy, 177S. 
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807. 

Of all Beethoven's symphonies, the Fifth seems 
to me the centre and climax, — the one bright, 
magnificent exhibition of consummate musical 
genius. 
Sermon, Sovkreignty and Pkrmanrnce of Love. 

Being dead he lives. Such men can never be 
forgotten. 

Sermon, IIeroisM. 

Whittier, the beautiful singer who wraps indigna- 
tion and wrath about with such gentleness of spirit. 
Sertnon, Cmarles Sumner. 



December 18. 

j George D. Prentice, 1S02. 
\ Alfred B. Street, 181 1. 
Horace B. ClafUn, 181 1. 

Poets are God's priests. 
Senno7i, The Posthumous Influence of Good Men. 

Renowned as a merchant, he was greater as a 
man, His memory will live as long in the midst of 
society, the church, the city, the State, as they 
themselves exist. 

Sermon, Horace B. Claflin. 



3S2 



December 17. 



December 18. 



383 



Decemp.er 19. 

Edwin AI. Stanton, 1S14. 
Mary A. Livermore, 1821. 

Stanton — the noblest of all the me^i who stood 
in the great struggle through which we came, — a 
man with a woman's heart, a child's tenderness, 
and an angelic fancy. 

Sermon, The Realm of Restp^ulness. 

I believe that a woman may do anything which 
she feels called to do and can do well. 

Sermon, The Training of Children. 



December 20. 

It is not for you to be overshadowed and over- 
come. 

Sermon, The Past and the Future. 

It may sometimes be necessary for your joy to 
be turned into sadness. But in order that you may 
be happy put down rebellion in yourself. 

Lectures to Young Men, Happiness. 

Have you a heart for humanity? Have you a 
soul that goes out for men } That is orthodox. I 
do not care what the creed is. 

Evolution and Religion, Poverty and the Gospel. 

384 



December 19. 



December 20. 



585 



December 21. 

lienj. Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, 1805. 

Kingdoms are not so strong as are the impulses 

and invisible tendencies of men which go to make 

kingdoms. 

Sermon, The Usk (jf Ideals. 



The grand element of motherhood and the grand 
clement of Godhood is that of suffering for one 
another. 
Sermon, Moral Honesty and Moral Earnestness. 



December 22. 

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823. 

Genius of conscience is the best genius a man 
can have. 

Sermon, Sins Agalnst tiik Moly Ghost. 



Radiant, genial, kind, pleasure-giving. 

Sermon, The Fruit of the Spirit. 

For God"s sake and your country's sake live and 
you shall live forever. 

Sermon, The Advance of a Century. 

386 



December 21, 



December 22» 



387 



December 23. 

Sir Richard Arkwright, 1752. 
David M. Stone, 181 7. 

Whoever invents machinery that abbreviates 
labor and sets men free from the bondage of toil, is 
a benefactor. 

Anniversary ok Burns' Birthday. 

Methinks the gentle thoughts and grateful silence 
of hundreds, every day, v^ho pass open gardens and 
cultivated yards, must be more pleasurable to the 
indulgent owner than the fragrance of all his 
flowers. 

Eyes and Ears. 



December 24. 

Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1745. 
Matthew Arnold, 1822. 

The tongue of man has deep inward relations. 

It is like a physician's wand full of incantations and 

witchery. 

Eyes and Ears. 

" You have been my master for many years. I 
have read all you have written two or three times 
over and always with profit — including the abuse." 
Conversation with Matthew Arnold. 

388 



December 23. 



December 24. 



389 



December 25. 



As the vine clasping the living tree creeps along 
its branches, and roots itself in the crevices of the 
bark, and forms itself upon its shape, so, in all the 
variations of life, our thought of Christ, following 
our experiences, shall fashion and form itself. 

Evolution and Religion, The Manifold Christ. 



Dpxember 26. 

Jliomas Ciray, 1716. 

There is no gentleness in the world like that 
which is manifested by power. 

Servion, The Narrow Way. 



You cannot afford to excuse yourself on account 

of your environment, for you have the inspiration 

of love. 

Sermon, The Honor of Servinc. 

You are building. Take heed how you build. 
Sermon, Do With Thy Might, 

390 



December 25. 



December 26. 



391 



December 27. 

Johann Kepler, 1571. 
Louis Pasteur, 1822. 

To-day science has joined hands with philosophy 

to search out the means of softening the lot of men. 

Evolution and Religion, The Growth of Creation. 

As the human race ascends, new things that are 

divine become discoverable things that a thousand 

years ago would have been of no use to man if 

known. 

Sermon, God in the World. 



December 28. 

Every man who is strong ought to have buttoned 
to him one or two shiftless men, that he, having 
organized power, may take care of them. 

Sermon, OTHER Mp:n's Failings. 

You will sooner get honey from a rock than joy 
from self-consciousness. 

Sermon, The Prize of the High Calling. 

392 



December 27. 



December 28. 



393 



December 29. 

Charles Goodyear, 1800. 
William E. Gladstone, 1S09. 

Goodyear, of excellent memory and name, spent 
many weary years and all his property in the dis- 
coveries which have blessed economically the whole 
world. 

Sermon, Salvation by Hope. 

If any nation in Europe so acts that it damages 
the interests of humanity in other nations, some 
Gladstone is raised up to protest and protect. 

Sermon, Christian Pantheism. 



December 30. 

It is simply what a man has in him and where it 
is, that determines what he is. 
Sermon, Cuba, and the Brotherhood of Nations. 

She would go farther and fare harder to serve a 

friend or to relieve a case of trouble than any one 

else. 

Sermon, CHARACTER AND Reputation. 

394 



December 29. 



December 30. 



395 



December 31. 

Johann Caspar Spurzheim, 1776. 
James T. Fields, 1817. 

Early in my college life, under the influence of 
Dr. Spurzheim, I embraced the system of phrenology. 
As you can by taking type spell out a word, so by 
taking the different faculties you get to know the 
man. 

To THE Congregational Association. 

Books are only another form of giving im- 
mortality to the best part of men. 

Sermon, Problem of Joy and Suffering. 



396 



December 31. 



397 



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